I'm gonna be alright if I believe in you It's all I want to do

1 Do you believe you've met your soulmate? 

    yes

 

2 Have you ever drunk-dialed someone you shouldn't have? 

    depends on the definition of "shouldn't have"

 

3 How much money are you willing to spend on a first date? 

    I've never, ever thought about it.

    The most costly "first date" I ever had was during junior year of college. I bought a wholly new outfit (not in my budget at the time) and had my hair cut. We went out for dinner at a place the next state over, then a movie, and then dessert back in our own state and to the west a ways. He paid for gas and the meals and the movie. I think I paid for movie snacks. Anyway, the real cost of the event played out over the succeeding fifteen years—for more than twelve of which, we were married. 

 

4 Is ghosting ever acceptable? 

    only when it's me doing it and not receiving it.

    No, really, it's not. For all my joking about moving and leaving no forward, I think it's immature and arrogant to just disappear rather than to take the time to exit respectfully. Like no-showing a job, it doesn't reflect well on oneself (and however deep inside, it wears on a person's conscience, too) to be so untrustworthy.

 

5 What is something you would do if you knew there were no consequences? 

    punch someone (a specific person, not a random stranger) in the kidneys

 

6 What would you ask a psychic if you could?

    "what are tomorrow's Lotto numbers?"

 

7 What's one thing you hate people knowing about you? 

    how easy it can be to push my buttons. (see also #5, above)

 

8 What's the story behind your worst hookup?

    there are so many contenders! Besides those who have received too much airtime already . . . there was a guy in high school, maybe the summer between HS and college. He was a friend of a friend, one of those people who you know by sight but haven't really talked to. We were sort of set up by mutual friends, ending up at the same parties and shoved together by well meaning idiots who believed that all the world should march along in pairs. We didn't really know each other, and as it turns out didn't really like each other, but for reasons that made sense in our adolescent brains, spent some time together. He was an obnoxious ass, I was not in a particularly nice phase of personality development, and it was not an unmitigated success. 

 

9 Would you marry someone with opposing political views to you?

    not likely, particularly given recent events

 

10 Do you have any fake social media accounts? 

    if I did, would I reveal anything about it in a way that could tie it to me?

    (no, I don't.)

 

11 Have you ever flirted with someone to get something you wanted? 

    only in the sense that flirting is a precursor to dating

 

 [from here; the title quotation is by Tom Petty, from "Crawling Back to You"]