you put your time where your priority is

1. Under what circumstances would you say it's better to be safe than sorry? 

    keeping winter-weather gear in the car (it always snows earlier than expected), waiting an extra couple of minutes before biting into a battered chicken sandwich (always so much hotter than I think it's going to be), and triple-checking that I'm sending out the proper item from my eBay inventory. 

 

2. What's the last thing you do before you go to sleep at night? 

    put on hand lotion. I absolutely loathe the feeling of even slightly dry skin against the sheets.

 

3. What would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time? 

    the world would implode. Not from the physical effects of the jumping but because more than two people agreed to any damned thing and followed through accordingly.

 

4. Do you know what every button on your TV remote control is for? 

    ha! Not even close. My TV remote includes a cursor that runs via scroll wheel. It is not intuitive for me, and I only ever touch it by accident. Whatever nonsense it's activated against my will then has to be cancelled. It's disruptive and annoying, and there is no way to disable it.

 

5. What's the most irksome challenge you deal with in daily life? 

     money.

 

6. Have you ever spoken up for someone else? What was it about? 

    heck yeah. It's happened a lot, and I would be reluctant to be friends with someone who hadn't done it, who couldn't point to a specific time when someone was important enough to do it.

    The last time was when I told Lord Farquaad that I will work on any project he wishes - but only on the condition that Blackbeard comes with. 

 

7. What was the last item you put in your basket on Amazon? 

    cough medicine. I've been sick since the end of October, progressing from strep to viral sinus infection to what now seems like either bronchitis or my first foray into Covid. 

 

 [from 3000 Unique Questions about Me; the title quotation is by Sebastian Faulks, from Engleby]