- I love/loved the smell of matches and candles burning. One Christmas, in an effort to get a good whiff of a candle, I took a deep breath in and accidentally sniffed it out. I momentarily froze because I thought that what I had just done could be considered smoking.
- I used to think that I could get AIDS by not wearing a band-aid on an open wound. Subsiquently, anytime I was bleeding, I always had to have a band-aid.
- Half of my childhood was spent in Utah. At the time, there wasn't that much ethnic diversity. The only exposure to African-Americans I had was the Cosby Show. One day, I asked my parents why Bill Cosby painted his fingernails white.
- One day, I asked my dad to blow up a balloon for me. I guess he was busy at the time, so my mom offered. I told her that I wanted dad to do it because when boys blow up balloons, they float in the air. My mom laughed and said that nobody could do that. That was helium. I blame that thought on Winnie the Pooh. I swear there was a scene in one of those movies where Christopher Robin blows up a balloon, ties a string to it, and it floats.
- Speaking of Christopher Robin, I thought he was a she for a while. I think it was because in my mind, Robin is was a girl's name, and even though Christopher was a boy's name, adding Robin to the end of it made it a girl's name. He also wore some pretty gender neutral clothing. AND what boy plays with stuffed animals.
- When we moved to North Carolina, our toilets were "low flow." Meaning, they had less water in the bowls. After living in our brand-new house for a few days, I asked my parents when we'd be getting more water in our toilets. You see, I had no concept of "low flow," and since our house was just built, I thought that somehow affected the water in the toilets.
PS: Sorry for being MIA lately! My dad and I went on an impromtu road trip up through scenic Idaho. It was great! And now I love steak!
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