This Sunday Stealing is Swap-Bot redux.1. Do you trust people at restaurants who handle your food that they aren’t doing anything gross to it while you can’t see them?
What a weirdly paranoid question. Of course, because if they were to do so over time, it would likely be discovered. Incidentally, my wife, my daughter, her friend, and I went to an Italian restaurant called Tesoro in June on its last day before the owners would retire. Usually, when I have leftovers, the server will bring the empty containers to us. But this place put the food in the containers and bagged them up. That was the way it used to be, and I think it’s classy.
No hair day
2. How do you wear your hair each day?
If you’ve ever seen my hairline, you wouldn’t ask that question. The picture of the duck on my page, drawn by the late Raoul Vezina is a caricature of me that he did when I was 30 or younger It is so good that my old buddy Dan, the fuirst time he saw me on the street in 1985, after having previously seen the cartoon, KNEW it was me.
3. Have you ever worn:
A gas mask? Not to my recollection.
A blindfold? Undoubtedly, for the purpose of some game.
Is this a fashion question?
5. What is the difference between a man’s button down shirt and a woman’s button down shirt?
They’re buttoned on the opposite sides? IDK, and I don’t care. OK, I care enough to look it up afterward. Yup.
No, non, nein, nyet
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4. Would you be willing to go hang gliding?
6. Have you ever taken a lock of someone else’s hair?
7. Have you ever given anyone a lock of your hair?
8. If you had a locket what would you put inside?
16. Do you have any tattoos or piercings?
are no, don’t think so, I doubt it, I’m not a locket kind of guy, and no, respectively
9. Have you ever written something on a bathroom wall?
It’s possible, though i don’t remember specifically. but it would have been one that had been severely graffitied previously.
10. When was the last time you fell down in public?
I don’t recall. I remember doing so on my way to church pre-COVID whe it was icy out.
Have I ever been mellow?
11. Are you more aggressive or mellow?
I wouldn’t use either of those terms. There are times when I will exhibit a flash of anger, usually when I, or someone else, has been wronged. I can be mellow about things that just don’t matter much to me. If a group is going out to a restaurant, and they want my preference, generally, I don’t care.
Conversely, if something is important to me – and I had made it quite clear that it was, and yet I’m not heard – I can be quite vociferous. This happened at least twice at my last job.
What is life?
12. What have you done with your self to keep your life worth living?
Being useful, broadly speaking. That was the great thing about being a librarian; I could answer questions that some wanted to know the answer to. there are things I know – CDTA bus routes, certain music trivia, news – that can be helpful.
13. What is the most incredible thing you can do?
Incredible? IDK. I do know all of the US Presidents in order, by year inaugurated. Indeed, muy brain is so full of ephemera that I can’t even remember what I remember.
So I asked my wife. She mentioned two separate things: my ability to remember the dates of many events in my life; and recalling music ties to lyrics, when I got the album or first heard the song. I see them as part of the same brain process. For instance, I first heard The Beatles white album in the basement of the Unitarian Church in Binghamton, NY shortly after Thanksgiving 1968 when friend Steve used his LRY (Liberal Religious Youth) credentials to be able to use the building.
14. Do you bury your pets, flush them, or throw them away?
I haven’t had fish since I was kid. Probably flushed them.
15. What’s your favorite thing that is yellow?
An electrical banana. Nah, probably a T-shirt.
(Thanks to Gus for the graphic.)
I imagine you were a wonderful librarian!
I think if I were a librarian, I would spend all day reading – that would be great. I guess librarians have no time to do that though, do they?
:o)
Cheers
PM
As a former librarian, I have to ask what you think about the book “banning” that is taking place. Here locally, they are after the LBGTQ books in the library, trying to have them removed as not age-appropriate, even though the publishers have rated them as such. Kids shouldn’t learn their playmate has two dads, or something, is how they think. It’s become a horrid fight here, with calls for the librarian director’s resignation and such. I am opposed to censorship, so I find this rather horrific. This seems politically motivated, not morally motivated, though they are using “parents rights” and such as excuses. But my local library policy is no one under 13 is supposed to be in there without an accompanying adult, so I don’t think they have an argument.
Nobody remembers that in addition to shirts buttoning on opposite sides for men and women, generally the same shirt will be more expensive if sold to a woman.
Country Dew – as a librarian, and a member of the board of the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library, and as a thinking human being, it frankly ticks me off. You are making a rational observation, but the conversation about book banning is 90% fearmongering, and 10% posturing for political gain. https://www.rogerogreen.com/2022/12/05/american-library-assns-unite-against-book-bans/
Thanks for the response!
OF COURSE we all wore blind folds at least once! Thank you for remembering those birthday party games we all played as children. I don’t know what most of our fellow responders are thinking of with that question: firing squads? 🙂
I think it’s cool that you remember your introduction to The White Album so clearly. BecauseI remember mine, too. My friend Judy and I hijacked her older sister’s copy and listened to it on the floor in Judy’s bedroom. It was life changing!