Untrue, outlandish, and believable

[cjsmith]

I need to go to my boss pretty soon and admit defeat on something. I hate that, so I'll put it off. My last post provided just the seed I was looking for.

I want to make up things that are untrue, outlandish, and believable about myself. They should be things I haven't done or things I am not, but that I could easily have done or been. Several will be things I've considered and liked but never took action on.

[LJ-CUT TEXT="Here goes. Anything in italics is true."]

I have dyed my hair forest green just to see how it would go with my eyes. I want to.

I have eaten alligator meat.

I once went to work in a ballgown. I have worked in a situation where I could have.

I can go a week wearing only clothing I myself have sewn. I could at age fourteen or so. Well, excepting undies.

I have climbed Mount Whitney.

I have driven a car with no functioning radio all the way across the continental United States by myself. It had a radio, though I didn't use it. The songs on the cassettes I brought are permanently burned into my memory.

I can burp the alphabet all the way through the letter T.

I have submitted a story for publication in a fantasy anthology.

At one time or another I have grossed out every person I know. I'm pretty sure this isn't true. Grossing people out is not exactly a goal, but it just sorta keeps happening.

Okay. Bullet, bite.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Hey, me too. Nurse mom, visuals versus words, the whole thing.

Not much turns your stomach when you've grown up hearing your mother talk about maggots in women's breasts.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Really? I never knew we had so much in common. ;)

How's this one: every time I wanted to do something as a child, (go camping, swimming, etc.), my mother apparently saw someone die from that same activity only a week previous...

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

During my childhood my mother was a psychiatric nurse. (So was my father.) Ma's great line was that she worked in two madhouses.

Later she worked in a skilled nursing facility, where a patient's gangrenous foot fell off in her hand.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

My god, that's got to be upsetting...

We were all happy when my mom transferred out of the ER into the maternity ward.