10.28.2020

a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction

 from 160 First Date Questions

79. How much personal space do you need to be comfortable?  probably more than most people, though it significantly varies depending upon who I'm with. There are a couple of friends that I pretty much hang on, one person who I almost always sit on the floor next to, with my head on her knee, and one person with whom it's a test of my will not to lean against at all times.

80. What's the most interesting fact that you know?  the term "sideburns" came from Ambrose Burnside, an American Civil War general after whom they were named

81. What fad or trend have you never been able to understand?  clothing with ruffles of any kind, anywhere, ever, for anyone over the age of 2 (with one specific exception that I'm not getting into here). They inevitably accentuate the exact thing that one is trying to minimize. Just...don't.

84. What do you like but are kind of embarrassed to admit?  Zingers

85. What's your favorite smell?  clean t-shirt

86. What skill or ability have you always wanted to learn?  I'd have liked to play the piano, but my hand-span is short and tendonitis in my thumbs has probably shot that dream all to Hell

87. What's the best meal you've ever had?  crispy bacon on French bread with a can of Coke

bacon on toast

88. Where was your favorite place to go when you were a kid?  school—and within school, the library!

90. If you could go back in time as an observer, no one could see you, and you couldn't interact with anything, when would you like to go back to?  I would go back to see the expressions on the face of someone while he was falling in love with me. To see that, to be able to have that unguarded moment in the back of my mind ... that would smooth out some rocky moments.

91. What's something that most people haven't done, but you have?  paid back my student loans

92. What says the most about a person?  what's on their mind as they fall asleep

93. What machine or appliance in your house aggravates you the most?  I'm not thrilled with replacing the furnace filter, since the slot is just slightly too small for the filters, and annoyingly sharp

94. What places have you visited that exceeded your expectations?  Norman, the bay city, and Toledo

96. What's the worst movie you've ever seen?  Skyline

97. What's the best trip you've been on?  south

98. If you found a briefcase filled with $1 million in one hundred dollar bills in front of your door, what would you do with it?  break it into $9000 chunks and stash them, go to the casino a few times, open some accounts, quit my job (BUH BYE), give my house to my parents, and take off

99. What's the worst advice someone has given you?  'you really need to try to be more humble' (that was my current boss)

100. Besides your home and work, where do you spend most of your time?  in the car

101. If you could have the answer to any one question, what question would you want the answer to?  "Should I sell my house?"

102. What are your top three favorite things to talk about?  books, psychology, and movies. And sports. And law. And history. And food. And breaking stupid rules - tee hee

[from here; the title quotation is by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., from Player Piano]

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