Two truths and a lie

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I walked into the bar. The Knicks were on TV. I was 15. I was not served a Rum and Coke.

The drinking age was 18 then.

1. I went to a job interview but was told that none of the staff would like me because I was odd somehow (although they couldn't put their finger on the reason). I wasn't hired.
2. I auditioned for a singing part in a school musical, but was told to try again when I didn't have a sore throat. I didn't have a sore throat.
3. I auditioned for a different school play (non-musical) and was given the lead role (a cat).

#1. They thought you were cuckoo---but they hired you, anyway.

I think you're a nice cuckoo

1. Matthew Katz liked Hershey's Chocolate.

2. Matthew Katz wasn't in my class.

3. Matthew Katz always asked the bus driver a lot of questions.

I was 14 as well when mine changed.

Correct. It was actually another student and not a teacher that my comment was directed at. And it's a word I dare not repeat since it's a slur of all things, a fact made worse that I just so happened to repeat it to a kid that could be offended by it.

I called a kid the "N' word when I was 10, and got punched in the face.

I took the punch like a man, and never called anybody the "N" word again.


1. I slept in a bunk with 3 kids who wet their beds.

2. We all became friends.

3. This rendered me prejudiced against bedwetters for the rest of my life.

Unfortunately 1 is true. They said straight to my face that the other employees "likely" wouldn't like me, because I was odd in a vague, undefined way. I wasn't sent to the next round of interviews. I look back now and realize that was probably cause for legal action / discrimination, especially if I had known I was autistic. Oh well.

2 was true.

3 was my lie. I wasn't ever the lead in a play. I was required to be in two school plays (class productions), but in one I had to be a robot (how appropriate?) and in the other I had to dress in black and be a shadow "silhouette", without speaking.
All I did was follow the lead girl around like a black shadow. My teachers must have been quite intuitive.

1. I called my teacher a dog when I was 14. She heard me and pulled me into the hallway where she started crying, and telling me how depressed she was. She was going through a divorce. I started crying too because I felt so badly about calling her a dog. I hadn't meant "dog" as an insult. I mean that she was loyal and energetic like a dog. She didn't believe me so I felt terrible.

2. When I was seven I stole a box of pushpins from my teacher, buried them in mud outdoors, rescued them and gave them back to her. I told her that someone else had stolen her pushpins and put them in a puddle, but I had retrieved them on her behalf. I expected a pat on the head and a lot of appreciation. That's why I did the whole stunt. My teacher told me to throw them away and didn't even care. Then she said "How did you know they were even my pushpins, if they were in the mud?" Ooops.

3. When I was 14 I called my teacher a b****, hoping to be kept after school so that I could cry and get some attention from her. I thought it might initiate a lasting communication. It didn't work as she sent me home and didn't offer to speak with me alone.

2. EWWWWW.

#3. She saw through the ruse, saw your potential, and decided to try to help you.

(at least I hope so).


Actually, we in the bunk became bosom buddies that year in camp. So that's true.

1 and 2 are true for me.

3 was my lie. I did attempt the stunt described, but my teacher sent me to a week of detention hall with a different supervisor, and didn't discuss the matter at all.

I sort of figured that would have happened...I'm just too much of an idealist

1. I was constantly thrown out of typing class.

2. I was constantly thrown out of science.

3. I was constantly thrown out of gym.

Typing class was THE BOMB. I loved it. It was the single, most useful class I ever took. (I type every day of my life).

You were thrown out of Science for calling the answers out loud.
You were thrown out of Gym for hitting things
So maybe 1 is a lie. I hope. Do you remember "POPCORN!" for letter p?

I was never thrown out of gym. After a while, they just thought it was an "exercise" in futility--so I was sent to the guidance counselor. #3 is the lie.

I knew how to type before I took typing class. So I was hyper in class. I typed about as fast as the teacher.

The science class----was legendary in how often I got thrown out.


1. I failed English the second marking period of 7th grade.

2. I failed Hygiene in high school because I was always late.

3. I failed English in high school because the red-headed teacherlady hated me.

You had a class called Hygiene? OMG That's funny. I hope it's 2.

LOL....that's why they called "sex ed" in those days.

Nope....the answer is #3. I passed her class, despite her not liking me. She was really into Maxine Hong Kingston, the feminist Chinese author. It was because she was into her that I felt like I wanted to debate things with her. When I actually read her, I found her okay. I made a few "sexually inappropriate" remarks, so I was thrown out one day, and made to "think about it." They were subtle, rather than overt.

She was a highly pretentious lady.

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Synaesthesia, by Isabella:

1. I have a difficult time naming anything, because the colours have to match. (Pets, dolls, etc). As such, all my dolls were named Amy which is light, celery green. Few other name colours went with that shade so I named them all the same.

2. The Bee Gees music feels like cotton balls. It's orange, blue and swirly.

3. Isabella is a pink name