Weekly Survey

[mal]

1. If you had the chance to do it all again, tell me: would you? could you?
Yes. I would and I could.

2. Are you a french fries or baked potato with your steak kind of person? Or no steak at all?
Baked potatoe with a steak.

3. Shower or bath? Morning or evening?
Shower, most mornings.

4. What jewelry do you wear daily, if any?
Not a darn thing.

5. What is your very first memory?
I cannot remember.

6. Do you/did you like your parents?
Half of the time.

7. What do you wear to work?
Business casual (my version of business casual is poor white trash...one step away from a street person).

8. Do you have any stickers on your car? What are they?
None.

9. What's your favorite Summer Olympic sport to watch?
Skateboarding, when it is included in the next one.

10. What brand/flavor of coffee/tea/soda do you prefer during the summer?
Coffee. Whatever is the cheapest, I'm no coffee snob.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

August 7, 2016

1. If you had the chance to do it all again, tell me: would you? could you?
All? Absolutely not, no way no how. Some? yeah, I'd like a do-over on some things

2. Are you a french fries or baked potato with your steak kind of person? Or no steak at all?
depends on my mood, what else is on the menu, sometimes nothing more than some garden veggies, baked if it's available

3. Shower or bath? Morning or evening?
shower, evening. I wonder how many people in construction get all freshly bathed and scented before heading out?

4. What jewelry do you wear daily, if any?
wedding band...does a watch count? I wear a watch and a wedding band.

5. What is your very first memory?
don't know for sure, have a scattering of memories from when we lived over on 1st Street...hiding in the doghouse...a hard plastic green army guy, parachuter, that I kept getting stuck up in the tree, Ma poking at it with a clothes-post...that scream from the bathroom, had to do with Vic's Vapor Rub, toilet paper, and me not liking the first, wiping it off with the second. and oh yeah, a birthday cake that burst into flames. That was a good one.

6. Do you/did you like your parents?
all-in-all, yes but you have your ups and downs so at times it varied, they're both gone, Ma when she was 50, Dad the day before George Junior got elected.

7. What do you wear to work?
usually a tee-shirt and Duluth Trading Company fire-hose work pants, summer...winter there's a layer of thermal and outer layers, as well, hat, sneakers or boots depending on the situation

8. Do you have any stickers on your car? What are they?
no stickers, truck, but I do have a business logo on the doors and another on the tailgate

9. What's your favorite Summer Olympic sport to watch?
I like watching the gymnastics...the high-diving...the marathon

10. What brand/flavor of coffee/tea/soda do you prefer during the summer?
any brand of coffee although recently I've been buying some high-end coffee, Dunkin Doughnuts or some other brew, that's mornings...small bottle of Gatorade several times during the day or afternoon, beer at when I get home.

 

[Kurben]

August 7, 2016

1. If you had the chance to do it all again, tell me: would you? could you?
Probably
2. Are you a french fries or baked potato with your steak kind of person? Or no steak at all?
French fries with Steak, a big one!
3. Shower or bath? Morning or evening?
Morning.
4. What jewelry do you wear daily, if any?
A necklace with a golddolphin on it. (A gift from my mother)
5. What is your very first memory?
grilling a hot dog over open fire
6. Do you/did you like your parents?
Very much so. I loved them so much both of them.
7. What do you wear to work?
Jeans and tshirt mostly
8. Do you have any stickers on your car? What are they?
Don't even have a car.
9. What's your favorite Summer Olympic sport to watch?
Swimming and track and field
10. What brand/flavor of coffee/tea/soda do you prefer during the summer?
A grande Caramel Frappuchino from Starbucks. If not available i settle for a coke.

 

[MarkS73]

1. If you had the chance to do it all again, tell me: would you? could you?
Maybe a little different

2. Are you a french fries or baked potato with your steak kind of person? Or no steak at all?
French fries, defenitly steak...

3. Shower or bath? Morning or evening?
Shower in the morning. I can't imagine starting my day without a shower.

4. What jewelry do you wear daily, if any?
No jewelry.

5. What is your very first memory?
The thing is, i think i have menories from being a baby but i'm not sure if i've made them up or if they're real...

6. Do you/did you like your parents?
I have great parents.

7. What do you wear to work?
Whatever i want.

8. Do you have any stickers on your car?
I don't even have a car.

9. What's your favorite Summer Olympic sport to watch?
I genuinly don't see what's fun about watching sports. I just do'nt see how you can feel that you've won while it's someone else
doing all the sporting...

10. What brand/flavor of coffee/tea/soda do you prefer during the summer?
Cappuchino

 

[not_nadine]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?

3. Define Rap in two words.

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?

5. What's for dinner?

6. What is your worst travelling experience?

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?

9. What is the best sandwich?

10. How often do you cut your hair?

 

[MarkS73]

not_nadine, post: 658242, member: 36350"]Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?

I live in a large city but since i have children i'd actually like to live in a more peaceful place with less traffic.

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?

Loungechairtester for a company that makes loungechairs

3. Define Rap in two words.

Bitches & guns. (I know, i'm getting old)

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?

Losing bigtime with monopoly from my 6 en 9 year olds sons.

5. What's for dinner?

Pizza

6. What is your worst travelling experience?

Missing a plane from Croatia to Amsterdam with my grilfriend. They called for boarding at least four times but somehow we thought it was for another plane
to Amsterdam. The result was that we had to go by three different trains and another plane. It took all night and we had to run from train to train to make the connections. To top it all off: i stepped in some kind of sea animal the day before and had an infected foot and was running a pretty high fever...

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?

Hearing a parrot talk. You know some can do it but it still pretty strange when you actually hear one doing it.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?

My kids do strange things everyday...

9. What is the best sandwich?

Sandwich with ham and cheese.

10. How often do you cut your hair?

Once every two months.

 

[Kurben]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?
A middlesize city, top between 100.000 and 500.000 inhabitants. country is more beautiful but have no car.
2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
Paleontologist
3. Define Rap in two words.
Noisy disturbance
4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?
the whole day has been good. A real lazy day!!
5. What's for dinner?
melted spicy cheese sandwiches
6. What is your worst travelling experience?
Being stuck in a snowstorm in a bus on a road that hadnt been paved yet. nowhere to go and it took hours.
7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?
Saw a cat chase a fox once. Does that count? I always thought it normally would be the other way around or not at all.
8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?
Dont know if it was strange but it sure was funny. While waiting in Minneapolis to board an about three year old child started going round to everyone at the gate saying "Bye-bye" and insisting on shaking your hand. He did it to at least a hundred different persons, me included, and when he was done started all over again. Never said anything but "bye-bye" over and over again.
9. What is the best sandwich?
Bacon and cheese
10. How often do you cut your hair?
thrice a year?

Great Questions, Nottie

 

[pegasus216]

1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?
Country. Never lived in a city, and don't care to ever.

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
Nothing appeals to me.

3. Define Rap in two words.
Buncha crap.

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?
Spending time with the babes.

5. What's for dinner?
Leftovers.

6. What is your worst travelling experience?
None really.

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?
Bring home live bunnies.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?
I can't think of anything.

9. What is the best sandwich?
Peanut butter, and jelly!

10. How often do you cut your hair?
Every 3 to 4 months.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?
The country

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
I'd like to be a narrator for audio books

3. Define Rap in two words.
Poetic Bass

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?
Woke up to a lovely rainfall

5. What's for dinner?
Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, cucumber & tomato salad

6. What is your worst travelling experience?
The Ogre and I argued and fought all the way through Georgia & Florida once. We were heading to Tampa and he decided to take the back roads instead of the interstate. 2 tickets, rare bathroom and food stops - it's a 16 hour trip from here on the interstate. I was so mad I wouldn't navigate. He was so mad he wouldn't ask for directions. It took about 24 hours. Once we got settled in and made it to St. Pete we were OK. He should just listen to me, always.

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?
Grossness warning!

Spoiler

We had poop eating dog once. She ate her own poop and then vomitted it back up. She was defective.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?
I'll have to come back to this. I am racking my brain and can't think of one right now.

9. What is the best sandwich?
Summer: BLT; The rest of the year: French Dip

10. How often do you cut your hair?
I'm very random about this. I'm fine and then one day I wake up and hate my hair and have to get it cut that day. I'm going to guess 6 months. It's been about that long now. Just this past Friday a cashier told me she liked my gray widow's peak. I furrowed my brow at her.

Excellent questions Nottie!

 

[ghost19]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city? The country. I've lived in both. I wish my son could get that experience of growing up in a small town.

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try? US Navy SEAL

3. Define Rap in two words. Mute Button

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far? Getting some reading time in.

5. What's for dinner? Grilled hot dogs and burgers. My son seems to want this for every meal...

6. What is your worst travelling experience? 1994, Tulsa, OK at the Nine Inch Nails concert. My girlfriend and I hotboxing a joint in the cab of my Ford Ranger with the windows rolled up right before walking into the concert. We open the doors to get out, a large cloud of pot smoke rolls backward and directly into the open passenger side window of a Tulsa Police Department cruiser......

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do? Watched a deer come to within about five feet of me one time while I was fishing on the river. It got itself a drink of water, looked at me, then just casually walked back into the woods. I'd never had a deer come that close to be before or since.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do? That would be my son when he was about 4 years old. Right in the middle of summer, we were leaving to go somewhere. I ran back inside to grab something, came back out he was down on his knees about six inches away from a large King snake that lives on our property somewhere. I think the snake was laying on our concrete carport cooling itself. There was no fear at all in him and the snake seemed not to react to him at all. He was very curious about what the snake was doing and he wanted to "give it something to eat". I've always thought what if that would have been some other type of snake??

9. What is the best sandwich? I'll go with a good chicken salad sandwich

10. How often do you cut your hair? Once every two weeks I just have it buzzed.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city? country but this small town is okay. I can get out in the bush anytime I want, almost.

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try? I think I'd like to be a Kindergarten teacher...just for the one day. I bet I'd learn more than the kids, easy.

3. Define Rap in two words. Pissed off.

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far? Right now...have a sense of accomplishment, bunch of pickles put up, a crock-pot full of salsa cooking down, the garden did great this year, the grass is cut...have two or three estimates that can wait until tomorrow morning. Sun is shining, not too hot, life is good.

5. What's for dinner? New York Strip...garden beans, cukes, tomatoes, salad dressing, a beer or two.

6. What is your worst travelling experience? Broke a tie rod heading south...in Toledo, rush hour traffic, not a friend in sight. Hoped a fence and found a wharehouse office that wasn't closed, used their phone--back before cell phone days...maybe 4-5 inches of slush on the interstate. That helped me get over out of traffic. Didn't have enough moolah for an adequate repair. Things worked out.

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do? Talking to the high school janitor this once, summer, had a job working at the school. We're outside on the lawn, look over at the elementary school roof--more or less a single-story ranch-type building. Gray squirrel up there hopping down the rake, down the slope...no tail. We pause, watch. Squirrel hops to the edge and pees...little dribble of pee falls over the eave. Holzberger turns to me and says I didn't know rabbits and squirrels screwed! Cat probably got his tail.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do? Present her old man with some "cookies"...via her diaper. Her old man, half-absorbed in the television, reached over--she had the lumps on a plate--she knew that much to do. Ralph had a cookie though it disagreed with his system. Never liked Ralph.

9. What is the best sandwich? One with tomato and mayo, salted tomato, lunch-meat, maybe some lettuce, on a hot hot day, humid, you just finished the morning hours, feels good to set down, open your lunch, pull back the baggy and take a bite. Nothing better.

10. How often do you cut your hair?
maybe once a month, longer if I get busy, usually longer...someone else cuts it, though

 

[skimom2]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016


1. Would you you rather live in the country or in the city?
Depends on the day

2. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
If I could magically have the appropriate skills, being a doctor

3. Define Rap in two words.
Hard, complex

4. What’s your favorite part about today so far?
Good CCD class

5. What's for dinner?
Teriyaki salmon, rice, broccoli, salad

6. What is your worst travelling experience?
Bits of a trip to visit my husband's family in MI and Chicago. My FIL chose the hotels/motels, for the most part. One motel we stayed in in Des Moines, IA had green mold growing 1/2 way up the yellow shower walls and the carpet was slippery. I slept fully dressed, including shoes. One place in NE had seven single beds in one room. I put my foot down at the motel somewhere in MI that had blood (or something) all down the side of the mattress. Enough was enough.

7. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen an animal do?
Hm. Can't think of anything.

8. What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a child do?
Too many to count. "Weird" is fallback mode for kids.

9. What is the best sandwich?
Muffuleta

10. How often do you cut your hair?
When it starts to bug me. Maybe every 4-6 months.

 

[Neesy]

Weekly Survey August 21, 2016



6. What is your worst travelling experience?
Bits of a trip to visit my husband's family in MI and Chicago. My FIL chose the hotels/motels, for the most part. One motel we stayed in in Des Moines, IA had green mold growing 1/2 way up the yellow shower walls and the carpet was slippery. I slept fully dressed, including shoes. One place in NE had seven single beds in one room. I put my foot down at the motel somewhere in MI that had blood (or something) all down the side of the mattress. Enough was enough.

.

Wow - I have heard of a rating of how many stars a hotel gets - the ones he chose should have had a rating of negative stars - you must be very tolerant.

 

[skimom2]

Wow - I have heard of a rating of how many stars a hotel gets - the ones he chose should have had a rating of negative stars - you must be very tolerant.

I tried. And there were really good parts, too! Those were just the low spots

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Weekly Survey, 8/28/2016

1. Do you have a landline telephone in your residence?

2. Do you believe the importance of "being a gentleman" or "being a lady" has changed over time?

3. Do you maintain a "yard" or a "lawn" or do you reside where you must go out of your way to walk on grass?

4. When looking for a parking spot, say in a large parking area or perhaps a parking garage, what criteria do you use or do you swing into the first available slot?

5. Have you ever dined at a table that had a red checkered tablecloth?

6. When it came time for your execution, if you can imagine you've been convicted of a heinous crime, do you think you would be able to walk to your death unassisted, or would they have to take you there screaming and kicking, perhaps under sedation?

7. Say you're walking along the avenue, a fairly populated avenue, vehicle traffic, pedestrians, and you heard someone shout, "get down! get down!" would you look around to see who was being addressed, or would you get down?

8. Have you ever participated in a rumble?

9. As a child, did you find the idea of an Easter Bunny somewhat hilarious...coming as it does after Christmas, or did you buy into the idea of the fabled rabbit and perhaps still hold dearly to that belief?

10. You're back on the avenue again, having dusted off your clothing, when you look in the distance and see a person running like the wind, a crowd chasing this person, an angry crowd. It is within your power to either stop the person or not to interfere. The person you imagine running, is it a male or a female? and what do you do? Stop? Or step back and watch?

 

[not_nadine]

Weekly Survey August 28, 2016

1. What is the best dish that you prepare?

2. When was the last time that you were really scared?

3. What is the worst time of the day?

4. What's the last thing you ate?

5. Do you text?

6. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

7. Do you sometimes laugh at the wrong times?

8. When was the last time you helped a stranger?

9. What shoes are you wearing?

10. Peanut or plain m&m's?

 

[Sundrop]

Weekly Survey August 28, 2016

1. What is the best dish that you prepare?
Italian Lemon Pepper Chicken

2. When was the last time that you were really scared?
When my front tire came off because the idiot at the tire shop forgot to tighten the lugs

3. What is the worst time of the day?
After work, fighting traffic to get home. What should be a seven minute drive takes 30 minutes

4. What's the last thing you ate?
Lo Mein

5. Do you text?
Yep.....probably more than most people

6. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?
Last month at an antique store. I picked up a happy meal box that someone had left on a display table.
For some reason, I thought it was old.....opened it up and everything. Turned out that it was some kid's lunch.

7. Do you sometimes laugh at the wrong times?
More often than not......can't help it.

8. When was the last time you helped a stranger?
I try to help someone daily.......even if it's something as simple as letting a car out in traffic

9. What shoes are you wearing?
None

10. Peanut or plain m&m's?
I like both, but prefer Plain

 

[Doc Creed]

1. What is the best dish that you prepare? Chicken and dumplings with cornbread.

2. When was the last time that you were really scared? During a snow storm my car was sliding all over the icy roads. My car was hanging over a ravine and a few guys helped me push it back on the road.

3. What is the worst time of the day? I hate getting up between four and six in the morning.

4. What's the last thing you ate? Blueberry waffles.

5. Do you text? Sometimes. Isn't texting basically Instant Messaging now?

6. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? At the library they were having a firetruck demonstration for the kids in the parking lot. When I went on lunch and cranked my old Buick, smoke belched and farted all over the kids area. They all were choking. I wanted to say 'sorry' but just drove off hunkered down in my seat.

7. Do you sometimes laugh at the wrong times? Yes, but can't think of anything right now. I know I have suppressed laughter at funerals before and during church. Reflex, I guess, when things get too serious. It's usually at a time I'm extremely tired or worn out.

8. When was the last time you helped a stranger? I bought a man lunch, a hotel room and gave him money to get to California. He was in a bad time of his life and had no family. He made it to California and called to tell me he'd found a job and appreciated the hand up.

9. What shoes are you wearing? Flip flops. I usually wear Nikes or dress shoes.

10. Peanut or plain m&m's? Peanut.

 

[MarkS73]

1. What is the best dish that you prepare?

I hate coocking, i try to avoid it as much as possible. I do make a mean bowl of cornflakes though...

2. When was the last time that you were really scared?

When my girlfriend had a stroke with my children in the room, the youngest was only six months old. I was at work
and got the call there. Turnded out she had been lying there with the kids panicking for hours before she was found.
Pretty scarey stuff...

3. What is the worst time of the day?

When it's time for bed because i have to get up early and i'm not tired. That happens way too much...

4. What's the last thing you ate?

French fries.

5. Do you text?

Yep.

6. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

I do that everyday...

7. Do you sometimes laugh at the wrong times?

Always, the most common situations can seem funny to me. Not always very practical...

8. When was the last time you helped a stranger?

Helped an elderly woman grab something from a shelf that was too high for her in the supermarket yesterday.

9. What shoes are you wearing?

Right now? It's hot, so no shoes...

10. Peanut or plain m&m's?

I dislike them both

 

[MarkS73]

Weekly Survey August 28, 2016



6. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?
Last month at an antique store. I picked up a happy meal box that someone had left on a display table.
For some reason, I thought it was old.....opened it up and everything. Turned out that it was some kid's lunch.