Two truths and a lie

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You're right.....the least plausible scenario is the correct scenario. I've never been up close to a coyote.


1. I started using a cell phone in 2001.

2. I started using a touch-tone phone in 1975.

3. I started using the Internet in 1996.

2 is true. My father actually did cut down the tree He decided to plant a flower garden in its stead, although we begged him to spare the tree. He became very weak and fainted while finishing the job. At the hospital they said he had undiagnosed pneumonia which had led to septic shock. He already had advanced, stage 4 cancer so he couldn't fight Septicemia or pneumonia in addition. Dad was in a coma for nearly a month. When he woke up he mooed like a cow (trying to get his vocal cords to work) (it was cute), then he announced he'd spent the entire duration of his coma "flying" to his childhood home to play with his childhood dog for several weeks. He said he'd been a child again and he gave details about his former home that we could later verify. Dad insisted he hadn't been in the hospital but rather "flying". This was April. He recovered, went home and passed away on Christmas Eve.

My lie is 3. I don't have a carved branch.

I hope your father was flying when the "time" came.

Yes. We were alone on Christmas Eve night and I told him to "fly away home".
Within moments he donned his wings and soared above the snowfall.

On a more cheery note:

1. I took tap dancing lessons and our recital was a song called "Never on a Sunday". It occurred to me (back stage) that this song was about sex, so I refused to dance. The song seemed pretty lewd for 8 year olds.

2. I loved my swimming lessons in our friend's private pool near the lake with gravel and cobblestone laneways that crackled when we drove over them. I always got a pinwheel on the way home.

3. I loved my ballet lessons but was sad that we didn't get to wear the traditional tutus. We only wore bodysuits with tights.

I remember how my ballet shoes felt, but nothing else about the movements.

#2? Seems like that might have been sort of a sensory irritation.

Good reasoning, but 2 is true. I loved and still love the crackle of gravel. The area was close to my childhood home and I loved all the smells (chlorine, rubber floatation devices, styrofoam flutter boards, flippers -- even my swim suit smelled good). I love most scents associated with swimming. It was fun to go home all wet in the car and sit on my towel with my pinwheel.

My lie is 3. Ballet wasn't bad, but I didn't love it and I really don't remember it at all. I don't even know what we wore or what the songs were. It's a non-memory other than I've seen my ballet shoes and mum says I went.

1. One arm of my present-day glasses split off from the frame.

2. I lost a pair of glasses when a bully took them off and threw them into the bushes by my junior high.

3. I am able to wear contact lenses.

3. I don't think you wear contacts

I tried to—-a couple of times—but it wasn’t in the cards. My blinking reflex is too quick.

I applaud your efforts; I've never even tried. I can only imagine how difficult it would be with furry fingers.

1. I used to sniff at any wound that was covered by a band-aid for a significant amount of time.
2. I used to eat uncooked pasta.
3. I used to eat tomatoes as if they were apples.
4. I prefer the feel of metal flatware as opposed to the disposable plastic variety.

I vote for 3. I do all of those, too!

#2 for Mr Fixit Man.

Correct

1. Was true. Not sure what it was about the odor, but I would always do this, especially with burns that blistered. I would also stick pieces of paper in there from time to time.

2 is true. I used to take a few strands of pasta, break it to a size large enough to fit in my mouth, leave it in there for a bit to slightly soften it, and then munch away on it.
Also true. I would take a whole tomato and start taking bites out of it, occasionally putting this lemon powder seasoning on it. Never left a half-eaten tomato.

Which leaves 4 as the lie. While I typically don't mind metal and just go with what's available, I have more of a preference to plastic. Unless it's one of those disposable spoons with sharp edges that this one restaurant seems to carry.

1. I was given the Columbia Encyclopedia when I was 8.

2. My father showed me a globe, and showed me all the countries, when I was 6.

3. I knew how to write before I was in first grade.