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Age: 24
Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): 0-3 was Broken Arrow, Ok; 3-8 Desoto, TX; 9 Nashua, NH; 9-14 DuBois, PA; 14-18 Coudersport, PA
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: CREEK.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: [Shopping] Cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunchbox, and you ended that “sentence” in a preposition. Bastard.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: A frying pan. Unless you’re using a microwave. Or a skillet.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Definitely a couch. Or a futon. Or a loveseat. Or a bed-no scandal implied.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Well, since gravity isn’t a device, we’ll go with a gutter. Drain spout?
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: I’m assuming it’s a porch. It might be a gazebo-only a gazebo.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Soda. Or coke. Or pop. Mainly soda, anymore.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Frozen blueberry waffles. [Pancakes.]
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: I say sub. I understand any number of alternatives.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Swimming trunks. Or shorts. Hopefully not just speedos.
12. Shoes worn for sports: Sneakers or tennies.
13. Putting a room in order: Um, cleaning? I didn’t know this one had options. Straightening? Tidying? Putting it in order?
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: The state bug of Pennsylvania, a lightning bug. [I guess it could be a firefly.]
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Pill bug, rolly poly.
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: Teeter-totter. [Please, someone, say you can hear Ed saying “teeter totter, teeter totter” in your head-I don’t want to be alone.]
17. How do you eat your pizza: With my hands and mouth. Funny that.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Garage sale, yard sale, flea market, take your pick.
19. The evening meal: Dinner! Now I’m hungry. [I, er uh, would like some, er uh, suppah!]
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: Basement. Where I live. Yay.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places:Water or drinking fountain. I’m easy.