I’ve Been Tagged (Again)!
After being tagged by Amanda Ottaway of Imago Dei as part of the “Thinking Blogger Awards,” Timmy Brister at Provocations and Pantings has tagged me with the “Six Weird Things About You” thread. I guess the object is to simply list six things about myself that people would consider weird and then ask the same of other people.
I’m really at a loss here because there’s really nothing weird about me. OK, so maybe that’s not entirely true. Weird is often in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it? These six things will have to suffice:
- I collect Pez dispensers. I currently have somewhere around 400 or so dispensers. Growing up, my Mom would bribe me to go to the grocery store with her by buying me a Pez dispenser. I don’t remember ever actually asking for them, so I think she just had a secret love for them! For whatever reason, I just didn’t throw them away, then one day when I was visiting my parent’s house from college, I was going through my old room where I found 50-60 dispensers in a drawer. I remember wondering if anyone actually collected Pez dispensers, and that was the end of it (or should I say beginning!). God bless my wife, she’s even been to a Pez convention with me in CA!
- I am very much a creature of habit. In the evenings after our boys go to bed, my wife and I will often sit on the couch (I am there as I type). I have to sit in the same spot each time, with a pillow under my feet and another on my lap upon which sits my laptop (this is often when and where I blog). Please do not take my spot on the couch or I’ll be all out of sorts. Sometimes, I won’t even be doing anything on my laptop other than resting it on my lap. It’s almost like an adult security blanket. I continually use the same pens and remain very particular about a number of things.
- I nearly always wear Argyle socks (even with shorts, which my wife wishes I wouldn’t do). As I said earlier, I am very much a creature of habit and this is one of my habits. I’m not out to make a fashion statement, it’s just personal preference. I do own some white socks that I bought to wear when I worked at UPS because I didn’t want to ruin my Argyles. I wear these only when I exercise (which isn’t nearly often enough) and when my wife insists (which is nearly every time I go out in shorts).
- My oldest son Miles said to include that I don’t like chocolate or dark sodas. I don’t particularly consider this weird, but I do not like chocolate at all. I like white chocolate. I like coffee and tea but not regular chocolate or dark sodas.
- I have no nail on the big toe of my left foot. During Junior High, I had several ingrown toenails. Finally, they took the nail off. It grew back incorrectly, so they removed it again and put something on the roots so that it would not grow back. I wish they were all that way, I never have to cut the nail!
- I strongly prefer my bedsheets to be tucked. Sitting next to me, my wife says: “It’s not just that you like them tucked, it’s the first thing you do every night when you come to bed! You’re a weirdo alright” I just don’t understand how someone could comfortably sleep with their feet coming out of the sheets or the sheets not firmly anchored. That’s not weird, it’s just common sense!
Thanks for the opportunity Timmy. So now I’m supposed to pass this on. I pick: Gunny, Will Turner, Chris Gonzalez, Rhett Smith, Matthew Hall, and Mark Redfern. Pass it on.
We all have our quirks, and for some reasons it sure is fun to read about the quirks of other people. Thanks.
“put something on the roots so that it would not grow back. I wish they were all that way, I never have to cut the nail!”
Okay, I’m having some envy over here.
I got hit with this “tagging” a while back as well.
(I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.)
It’s a fun bit, but I wonder if it would be better to have six friends of folks who know us well come up with a thing or two validating the label of weirdness.
For example, how would your beloved readers answer the question, “How is Brent weird?”
I like knowing those things, but might we come up with different stuff.
For example, is it weird to anyone else that Brent always refers to the terrorists winning or whatever that bit is?
Brent,
Thanks for participating.
PEZ Convention? I will have to let me friend who also collects PEZ dispensers know about that one.
That toe business is pretty gross to think about, although I did have the same toenail (big toe, left foot) removed once (it grew back semi-correctly).
Gunny,
Let me reassure you, the boys and I all helped in picking his weird stuff! It was a lot of fun! Even our five year old said, “It’s weird that you don’t eat chocolate daddy.” :)
Tucked sheets and white chocolate are great. I also had an argyle stage (one year long, when I was about 19 years old).
Our parents were always too cautious with money to buy us Pez. You were fortunate. In elementary school a classmate collected Pez dispensers. That was the only normal thing I remember about that kid. For instance, he used to spend an hour in class twining his excessively long fore-arm hairs into little tee-pees, while the teacher rambled on about this or that. After a while both of his fore-arms were covered, from hand to elbow, with little spiked arm-hair tee-pees. It was very difficult refraining from laughing out loud in class. Pastor, if you should see a guy with odd fore-arm hairs at a Pez convention…..
Kristi,
That is reassuring and … VERY weird to not like chocolate, borderline un-American.
Willy Wonka would not be impressed!
LOL!! When I read “I’m really at a loss here because there’s really nothing weird about me” my first thought was - “what about the PEZ dispensers?!” And then of course there is the chocolate thing. Ugh! I can understand someone not preferring chocolate, but not liking it at all? Yup. That’s weird. =P
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