The first Sunday Stealing after the vernal equinox is another WTIT: The Blog presentation.
1. If you could witness any event from history, what would it be?
The end of World War II in 1945. I’ve seen/read enough science fiction to want to make sure I don’t muck up history.
2. What do you think about conspiracy theories?
Most of them have no basis, and some are utterly absurd. So those that I consider plausible, such as JFK’s assassination, make me really uncomfortable.
3. Do you like cartoons? Do you have /had a favorite one?
I have always loved cartoons. Popeye got to eat spinach. When I was five and a half, I remember having a bloody nose so severe that I was admitted to the hospital; it was great because I got to see the Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear. Later, I watched The Flinstones and the Jetsons, then the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner stable. For a few years, I watched The Simpsons. If I had to pick one, it’d be Rocky and Bullwinkle. And this doesn’t even touch on print cartoons such as Doonesbury, Nancy, and many more.
4. What did you most dislike in school times?
In grade school, the teachers checked our fingernails to ensure they were clean. Mine were rarely clean. They might have been when I left the house, but not by the time they were checked. At the time, I thought it was stupid. In retrospect, it was stupid.
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream
5. What sounds are, in your opinion, relaxing? The sound of the sea? Traffic? Vacuum cleaner? Combine harvester on the field? Some kind of music? Birds singing?
White noise, vacuum cleaner.
6. What was the last thing you read?
Today’s newspaper.
7. What is one thing that has stumped you so hard you won’t ever forget it?
When I was eleven, give or take, I was walking down the street when something cracked the lens of my glasses. What WAS that? Nothing hit me, such as a pellet from a BB gun. My eye was unharmed.
8. What are you interested in that most people aren’t?
The US Secretaries of State who became President: Jefferson was Secretary of State under Washington, Madison under Jefferson, Monroe under Madison, JQ Adams under Monroe, Van Buren under Jackson, Buchanan under Polk, and H. Clinton under Obama—wait, that last one didn’t happen.
9. What’s something you really resent paying for?
I think the American method of tipping is weird, and I wish the workers were better paid. I’d rather pay more for the service.
10. If you could choose a different time period and place to be born, when and where would it be?
I have no magical “better time” in mind. I think of technological and medical advances that I appreciate.
Man of Steel
11. What’s one question you would ask Superman?
Why don’t you end the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, et al?
12. What’s your favorite smell? What’s your least favorite smell?
I love lilacs. I hate rotten eggs.
13. How do you feel about cars becoming fully autonomous and having no steering wheel, breaks, or accelerators?
I’m in favor of the idea. The technology is not there yet.
14. What are your favorite books and authors?
I have a whole bunch of Marvel Masterworks, many from the 1960s. So Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Stan Lee. (I’ve answered this question a few times, and I’m trying to give a new response.)
15. Have you had a reading or palm reading done?
Probably, but it was not anything I put any stock into.
Those are great cartoons. I don’t like the Simpsons but all of the rest are great!
You really don’t know what broke your glasses? That is scary!!
Since you don’t drive (correct?), I imagine you would really like a car that could drive you anywhere! I would like it, too!
This is my favorite sentence in your answers: “At the time, I thought it was stupid. In retrospect, it was stupid.”
I totally agree about tipping in America. It’s crazy and it was difficult for me on my first trip over there. I had no idea about the etiquette.
:o)
Cheers
PM
You’re right, tipping is weird. I dislike it, too, but always try to tip well because I heard that women do not tip well. I like to break the mold.
I also love cartoons and all the ones you mentioned. I’m not a fan of Sponge Bob’s frenzy.
That is pretty freaky what happened with your glasses. A flaw in the glass, perhaps? I’ve had a glass casserole dish explode while it was sitting in the cupboard. I agree about the tipping. It really bugs me now that it’s just assumed you will tip well even if the service was awful or even if you drove to the place to get take-out.