That Crazy Neighbor Lady tagged me with this:
I am instructed to list 6 little known oddities about myself.
1. I have a double nail on the ring finger of my left hand. That's the result of pulling a 6-foot gate shut when I was about ten. I grabbed it through the ring latch and didn't get my finger out in time. On the plus side, I was treated for the resultant compound fracture on a US Navy hospital ship.
2. I'm absolutely compulsive about matching the number of matches in a matchbook to the number of cigarettes in a pack. If the wind blows a match out before I get the cigarette lit I have to use a lighter for one of the remaining cigarettes in that pack to catch up.
3. I bought my 1986 T-Bird because I'd driven a 1985 model on a vacation through the Sierra Nevadas the previous summer.
4. I made the stupidest investment decision of my life when I knew Bank of America's stock was too low at $8 a share based on all the land owned under their branches in California and didn't buy any.
5. I'm unable to get rid of books. Ok, anyone who's seen this house would immediately know that, but none of you have.
6. I actually drank Olympia beer for the entire time I was in Japan. Worse, I liked it.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 15, 2006 08:50 AM | TrackBackI take it that Olympia Beer is not considered to be Good Stuff, at least among the connaisseurs. I could ask my father-in-law, who's more of an expert than I'll ever be.
Posted by: Serge at December 15, 2006 11:18 AMIts slogan was "It's the water." That's what it was, too; about 99% water and no taste to speak of.
I had all manner of Japanese beers I could have been drinking (Kirin, Asahi), but I was provincial.
Didn't learn the language, either, which is my bigger regret. In two years I could have made a pretty good start on fluency.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 15, 2006 11:45 AMIs there still much of a difference between the American stuff and Canada's?
Posted by: Serge at December 15, 2006 03:23 PMCan't say with any evidence. I never lived close to Canada after I reached drinking age. Although I must have had some Canadian beer when I was at Expo '86 in Vancouver, come to think of it.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 15, 2006 03:50 PM1. Eww.
2. You're right, that's odd. I like it!
3. I once busted out the rear window of a 1986 T-Bird that my (then) husband was driving... He pissed me off. *shrug*
4. No comment.
5. You and all of my husbands, past and present. Is that like a guy thing?
6. Not a beer drinker.... No comment.
Thanks for playing!!!!
Posted by: CNL at December 16, 2006 03:18 AMI have a thing about books also. I very rarely goto the library and read one of their books. That stems from borrowing a book from the childrens' section of the library when I was a small tyke. There was a piece of salami stuck between the pages......
Posted by: toxiclabrat at December 17, 2006 08:09 AMat the risk of making you (and myself) feel old, I learned to drive in a 86 T-Bird. White. It was the personal car of the owner of the driving school. Niiiiice car. Why he let us drive it, I'll never know. Sigh.
Posted by: txSkatemom at December 20, 2006 12:27 PM