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1) When did you recently have a conversation with a complete stranger? What did you two discuss? I can't remember who I was talking to, but it was yesterday and it was about my daughter's wedding and the fact that my boss managed to get my bus runs covered so I can be off all of this coming week. Maybe it was a parent?
2) In the video for this song, a woman is having a "hot" conversation on a corded, rotary dial phone in her bedroom. Do you have a landline? If so, doyou have an extension in your bedroom? We do have a landline and we have phones in the bedroom and living room. I keep thinking about eliminating the landline, but can't quite seem to bring myself to do it. We have a bundled package of cable/WiFi/phone and eliminating the phone wouldn't save us much. It's the least expensive component of the package.
3) This week's artist, Rick Springfield, says he wrote this song when he was worried that his girlfriend (now his wife) would cheat on him when he was touring. Would you describe yourself as suspicious or trusting? In general, I'm more trusting than suspicious, but I'm not stupid about it. It's been my experience that in a lot of situations if you treat people like you expect them to behave well or do the right thing, they usually do.
4) He became a daytime heartthrob as Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital. Do you think it would be cool to have a really attractive doctor? Or would it make you uncomfortable? I've had a couple of seriously attractive doctors over the years and I was fine with them. I guess it would depend on the doctor himself, though, and how he acted. On the whole, the doctors I've disliked the most or felt uncomfortable with have been females...they didn't have very good bedside manners.
5) He's discussed how sad he was when, as a boy, he had to leave his dog Elvis behind when the family left Australia. While you were growing up, did your family often move? Maybe not as often as some, but often enough. By the time I started high school we had lived in 8 different homes and I'd gone to 5 different schools.
6) In 1982, when this song was popular, Italy won the World Cup. Do you ever watch soccer? Nope.
5) He's discussed how sad he was when, as a boy, he had to leave his dog Elvis behind when the family left Australia. While you were growing up, did your family often move? Maybe not as often as some, but often enough. By the time I started high school we had lived in 8 different homes and I'd gone to 5 different schools.
6) In 1982, when this song was popular, Italy won the World Cup. Do you ever watch soccer? Nope.
7) "Smiley," the first emoticon, was introduced in 1982. Do you use emoticons in your communication? Or do you avoid them? I confess that I use the basics...smile, sad, heart. On Facebook I've left the emoticons behind...I'm hooked on the GIFs. I know they drive some people nuts, but I do think they have their place in establishing your intent when comments made in texts and on Facebook are so commonly taken the wrong way.
8) The Vietnam Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, in 1982. Do you know any veterans of that conflict? If so, tell us about him or her. One of my cousins is a veteran of Vietnam. He's an.....well, he's just not a very nice person. He received a dishonorable discharge that President Ford later commuted to a general discharge. I've never heard the whole story, but my mom hinted that it was related to drugs. I could go on with examples of his not niceness, but Dad always said if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
There is another cousin (I never knew him) who died in Vietnam and is listed on the Wall.
9) Random Question: Your friends are throwing a birthday "roast" in your honor. Which one quality of yours are you sure will be singled out for laughs? Geez...I don't know. My love of auctions, flea markets and garage sales? My obsession with books? My love of really bad reality shows (Alaskan Bush People, Mountain Monsters, etc.)? The way I talk to my dogs like I expect them to answer? I'm sure my kids could think of "something" since they find most of what I say/do either annoying or amusing.
I am the opposite with doctors. Male doctors dismiss me and do not take me seriously. Female doctors, on the other hand, have been compassionate and have made me feel heard. My PCP is a woman and I think she is a great doctor. She will spend 30 minutes with me on a visit if that is what I need. If I'm having an issue she will help me via email. Just last week we exchanged 10 emails in one day when I was having a reaction to my medication. I have never found a male doctor who would interact with me like that.
ReplyDeleteI don't think women in general make lesser doctors. It's just been my experience...and that's not a blanket statement. I've had female doctors that I liked just fine. It's just that all the ones I can remember having a strong dislike of have been women...all specialists.
DeleteWow! I hear a skeleton rattling in the closet with that cousin! As I understand it, dishonorable discharges are not that easy to ... what's the word? Earn? Deserve?
ReplyDeleteOh trust me, I am sure he deserved it...without even knowing what he did. He is that big of a jerk.
DeleteI went from First grade all the way through high school in the same town and now it is our 50th reunion... boy do I have a surprise for them!
ReplyDeleteFacebook took the element of surprise out of our last reunion.
DeleteYours is exactly the reasoning my hubby refuses to get rid of our landline.
ReplyDelete'So glad to learn your boss has given you this time off to prepare for the Big Day!
I keep trying to change my reasoning, but so far I'm hanging on.
DeleteI have one of those bundles too. Only I just keep the phone off the hook and use the number itself whenever someone asks for my phone number. We both know that they may want to sell that number at some point.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week off. I hope all goes well for you too :)
We have caller id and I recently signed up with a service where all robo calls are forwarded to it. It rings once and that's it. If there's no second ring I don't even get up to see who it is.
DeleteI have a land line, too. We so far like the bundle we have. It's working out well.
ReplyDeleteAnd, another Me-too, and of course it's all personal experience but I'm also the opposite about doctors. The ones I've liked the best have been women! Male doctors are sometimes supremely "entitled", and autocratic, and downright arrogant, like the OB-GYN who told me, angrily, HE was tired, too, when I told him I was having trouble sleeping. Pregnant with twins that he didn't even detect? No wonder I was tired.
Oh, that was awful of that doctor. I've had a couple of bad male doctors...the worst being the one that told teenage me, who got severe cramps that resulted in high fevers and throwing up every month, that it was all in my head. It's just the luck of the draw, I guess, that the doctors I've liked the most have been male.
DeleteSame with me for the phone/cable/internet bundle. That's the only reason I have a landline.
ReplyDeleteI know. I called once to see how much I'd save by giving it up and the amount was so piddly that I might as well keep it. You never know.
DeleteI enjoyed reading your answers! No one else I'm connected to does the 9, so it is always fun to compare our answers!
ReplyDeleteI agree! We tend to have very similar answers most of the time.
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