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A friend recently made a post asking "Tell me something true and outlandish and unguessable about yourself."
[LJ-CUT TEXT="Here are several such things."] (Many are probably unguessable only to folks I haven't told, but they're true and zany so I'll list them even though I've told people.) The first I also gave in answer to the post I saw.
I once locked myself out of my apartment when I was living in Paris. While my friend and I were waiting for the locksmith, we picked the lock to the building's main door downstairs and let ourselves in.
I have square danced naked.
Once, I (a lowly engineer) sent my company's Vice-President of Engineering out to get me lunch, and he went happily.
Twice in my life I have stayed awake long enough to hallucinate. The second time I knew it for what it was.
I have worked as a security guard, a shipping clerk, a switchboard operator (company's switchboard, not AT&T), a telemarketer (for less than one day), and a moving agent (international incoming).
I have fasted for a week due to illness.
I helped design the control system for the trains going through the English Channel tunnel. I have never seen the tunnel or its trains.
I have fired a Light Anti-Tank Weapon (live round).
One time, while my family was on vacation in Vienna, Austria, I was in lots of pain and feeling sick to my stomach. My mother kept telling me to quit whining. I threw up in a sewer grate. A random Austrian pedestrian asked if I would be okay. My mother decided we'd get a hotel rather than camping that night, although she never did believe me about the pain part of it.
I painted my nails with White-Out once or twice when I was a teenager.
During an Army field exercise, I once slept through getting gassed. I woke up with my gas mask on, found my glasses where they belonged and knew that I had put on the mask myself in my sleep, looked around and saw everyone else was still wearing theirs too, and went back to sleep.
These are fun!
[LJ-CUT TEXT="Here are several such things."] (Many are probably unguessable only to folks I haven't told, but they're true and zany so I'll list them even though I've told people.) The first I also gave in answer to the post I saw.
I once locked myself out of my apartment when I was living in Paris. While my friend and I were waiting for the locksmith, we picked the lock to the building's main door downstairs and let ourselves in.
I have square danced naked.
Once, I (a lowly engineer) sent my company's Vice-President of Engineering out to get me lunch, and he went happily.
Twice in my life I have stayed awake long enough to hallucinate. The second time I knew it for what it was.
I have worked as a security guard, a shipping clerk, a switchboard operator (company's switchboard, not AT&T), a telemarketer (for less than one day), and a moving agent (international incoming).
I have fasted for a week due to illness.
I helped design the control system for the trains going through the English Channel tunnel. I have never seen the tunnel or its trains.
I have fired a Light Anti-Tank Weapon (live round).
One time, while my family was on vacation in Vienna, Austria, I was in lots of pain and feeling sick to my stomach. My mother kept telling me to quit whining. I threw up in a sewer grate. A random Austrian pedestrian asked if I would be okay. My mother decided we'd get a hotel rather than camping that night, although she never did believe me about the pain part of it.
I painted my nails with White-Out once or twice when I was a teenager.
During an Army field exercise, I once slept through getting gassed. I woke up with my gas mask on, found my glasses where they belonged and knew that I had put on the mask myself in my sleep, looked around and saw everyone else was still wearing theirs too, and went back to sleep.
These are fun!
