a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once

• What's the most ridiculous rule you've ever had to follow?     my high school has a large parking lot for students, and a couple of very small parking lots for faculty and staff. Throughout my time there, I parked my car in the student lot maybe 25 times, total. The rest of the time that I drove, I parked in the lot behind the music wing. In my last year, we were supposed to buy student "parking permits," which I never got around to doing. That was probably what made it possible to keep up with my nefarious practice, since the permits made it clear from a hundred feet away that a vehicle was a student's; no permit meant my car blended easily.

    I did it because it was a pain to carry all my crap from the car to the building, and the longer distance made it more pain. Procrastination and unavailability of spots also contributed. Thinking it was a stupid rule that only stupid people followed was probably the main reason, though. I never once got a ticket or a warning or towed, so was it really a "rule" anyway? 

• Have you ever been on a Ferris wheel? What could you see from the top?     never, never, never. It would be impossible to surmount my fear of heights and nascent claustrophobia at the same time.

• If you had to eat dessert for breakfast, what would you have?     that's easy: cherry pie. It reminds me of some of the best weekends of my life.

• Easier said than done: what do you find easy in theory but difficult in practice?     reading only to the end of the current chapter before going to bed. It's a lifelong failing.

• If your life depend on leaping across an eight-foot gap between high rooftops, would you attempt it?     God no. I could maybe do 5 feet at a run, but even that would be borderline impossible.

• What would be the hardest thing about living in a lighthouse?     nothing. As long as there's internet access and Amazon delivery, I can't imagine anything better.

• What pajamas did you love the most when you were younger?     a pair of light-blue fleece footies (no flap). I wore them until they were all fuzzed into pill-balls and so short that I couldn't stand to my full height.

 

[from 3000 Unique Questions about Me; the title quotation is by Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]