Two truths and a lie

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OOPS, sorry Korts. I didn't read it closely enough.
Schizoid vs. Schizotypal went over my head, but there is a considerable difference.

1. I played a robot in a school play when I was eleven. I wanted to be 'Animal' from The Muppet Show but my teacher made me wear a cardboard box and be a robot

2. I was the Library Club captain for my class when I was ten. I was in charge of collecting overdue books from students in various classrooms, for the Head Librarian. I had a little trolley and a special badge. I was excused from class for my duties.

3. I used to walk to school with a girl named Cathy who was teased relentlessly because she wore dresses every day. People picked on me for being her friend. She became a famous veterinarian.

#2. You weren’t excused from class.

You're right. #2 is a lie in every respect. I would have loved such a job, however!

I was only excused from class to attend speech therapy. I spent all my free time in the library but I didn't have any duties.

1. I was once a library monitor, but wasn't excused from class.

2. A couple of times, the teacher let me stay around to clean the blackboard.

3. My grades (called "marks") were written out in pen. Until high school, when they were typed.

Here's my official badge.

1.

My reports were hand-written as well.

Yep. #1 was my lie. I didn't like the library in my schools; their selection sucked. It got a little better in high school. I worked in a medical library when I was 18 (for the Summer Youth Employment Program).

1. I had an Easy Bake Oven and I can still smell the little cakes. I liked the vanilla ones best but sometimes they got burned by the lightbulb. It was best to undercook them.

2. I had a collection of hair ribbons and elastics and I liked to twist my hair in dorky braids and ponytails even when that wasn't cool.

3. My cousins in LA had a riding toy called a Big Wheel. It was red and yellow. I used to tear up and down their road on the Big Wheel like a maniac

#3. She had the Big Wheel (every kid had it in the 1970s)---but you didn't go nuts on it. I was too old for them by the time they came out.

3 is my lie, but only because the Big Wheel was in Philadelphia rather than LA. I did go nuts on it. I loved how it rumbled and how I felt powerful. It was the only time I ever loved a 'boy's toy' like that. I still miss it. I was the perfect age but I kept riding it until my knees hit the handles

1 and 2 are true.

Were you in Central City Philly----or the suburbs?

1. I visited Bryn Mawr when I was 15.

2. I visited Upper Darby when I was 15.

3. I visited North Philly when I was in my 40s.

Bucks County
One of the best days of my life was spent on South Street being a tourist in 1991. I'll never forget it.

Your lie is 1.

I would have loved to visit Bryn Mawr!! !

Upper Darby was pretty cool, though. I hung out with some kid while he was on his paper route. There was five inches of snow in Philly on April 1st---but none in New York!

North Philly---around 35th Street---was a pretty bad area when I went there.

South Street is Philly's "Greenwich Village."

American landmarks I've visited:

1. Washington DC including the White House (I had a tour but only remember the display of china dishes from the First Ladies, and the gift shop , the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Memorial, the Smithsonian and Arlington Cemetery.

2. Florida's Disney World, the Daytona 500, and Kennedy Space Centre (but don't talk to me about any of that, especially Kennedy -- it was a bad, bad, meltdown day )

3. Graceland in Memphis. I went with my father and my brother. It was a lot more impressive than I thought, and I'd like to go back.

South Street was sooooo much fun! I might dig up some photos for you!

I'm thinking #3.

Bingo! I've been through Tennessee because we drove from Philadelphia to Florida, but we didn't stop at Graceland even though my father loved Elvis.