Ten weeks of this? And we haven’t all gotten bored yet? Incredible.
PAST: The connection between our brains and our mouths is supposed to be governed by a buffer of common sense and wisdom. Of course, that wisdom and sense are lacking when we’re young. Tell us about a golden moment when your pre-teen self said something you shouldn’t have, right in front of God and everybody.
PRESENT: Our buffer is always an imperfect device. What was the last time you slipped and fell on your own tongue, as it were?
FUTURE: Flipping the coin for a moment, think about something you’d really like to say to somebody, some day when you can get away with it (last day on the job, for instance). And, of course, you have to tell us about it. You can obscure the names and locations as much as you like, however, to protect the guilty.
There you have it, another round done and gone. Leave a comment if you choose to answer it here or on your own site, please! And as always, the return link is http://greyduck.net/ppf which will always point to the most current entry.
And I really will get my answers to this and the previous two done up soon. I promise, by the end of the weekend, unless the big earthquake hits and Portland is flattened. Honest.
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11 responses to “Past, Present, Future – Round Ten”
Past: When I was seven or eight years old, Mom started taking us to church. I was a good little pseudo-Christian boy and learned my Sunday School lessons… perhaps a bit too well, for during one sermon (by a visiting regional mucky-muck in the church, no less) I felt obliged to correct doctrinal and factual errors in the unfortunate gent’s presentation. A mixture of amusement and mortification ensued.
Present: Oddly enough, this just happened. Wendi came down so I could sign the state tax return check and (incidentally) bring me some lunch. I walked in the front door to be greeted by four avid pair of eyes, fixed firmly on me, and a chorus of “Oooh, Arby’s, my favorite” and similar statements from the women in the lobby. My witty response? “Well, it’s not like I suddenly became attractive; the Arby’s makes more sense.” *eyeroll* I’m such a cad. They had the decency to laugh, anyway.
Future: There are any number of people who, if it was announced they were leaving the company, I would gleefully give “what for” in their final minutes of employment. I’d also like to proposition a few lovely women, but I don’t think I’m going to get away with that any time soon, either…
Better late than never!
Past: When I was in England, there was a really hot spell. When we went to Parliament, we weren’t allowed to wear shorts, we could only wear pants. On the Underground, I yelled to one of my classmates, “But I don’t want to wear pants!” Pants mean underwear in England.
Present: Ugh… I disgrace myself so often anymore I can’t even remember the last time I said anything truly embarassing.
Future: I would like to tell my school it sucks, especially the professors that annoyed me. And run down each reason that they annoyed me to them.
I’ll answer these tonight (late again, I know), for some reason I can’t copy the text in Exploder. It grabs everything. I’m too lazy to retype!
My not so witty contribution is done!
Arrgghhh…
What a perfect topic – especially since my “present” is just yesterday asking one of the girls at the office if her boyfriend “looked inbred” (I was trying to figure out who he was from my HS).
Past. . .I guess my biggest “slip” was when I said the word “Masturbate” on a car trip home. It was intentional – and for shock value (or to see how liberal my parents were. . .I did social experiments like that a lot as a kid). And my mom yelled at me that I should never use that word again.
Future. . .I don’t know that I’d ever want to say mean things to people’s faces. It’s so much more fun to say it behind their backs 😛
O.k., I did it, but the answers only show how truly pathetic I am.
mine is up!
Sweet. First timer here. 🙂
up! thanks for the memories… yeesh.
There are my answers…such as they are. *sigh*