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korpun tagged me with this one a little while back: I should expose five odd things about myself, and then challenge 5 friends to do the same.
The oddity number 1: I have many, MANY phobias. I am terrified of English peas, and the idea of certain foods touching makes me want to run away screaming. I am also afraid of search lights, being pinned down to talk to my neighbors, and swimming in lakes. Those are just a drop in the bucket of my neurosis.
The oddity number 2: No matter how obscure and actor or actress is, if we're watching TV and Charles says, "That person looks familiar" I can usually tell him their full name, and the last thing(s) we saw them in.
The oddity number 3: I am not at all fond of talking on the phone. Even as a teenager, I could only stand so much of it.
The oddity number 4: I am physically unable to throw away a photograph, no matter how bad, pointless or hard to see it is. There are overexposed pictures of my thumb from 1982 sitting in my photo boxes because if it was printed at a photo lab, it shouldn't be thrown away like...the garbage that it actually is. Thank goodness they don't take up much space. (I should amend that to disclose the one exception - there are many bad photos of me, because I am the most unphotogenic person EVER , and while I still have most of the bad ones of myself, there have been a few that were SO horrific that I actually broke my own rule and threw them away. There are some things the world just doesn't need to see, and even if the world would never see them, I don't want to either.)
The oddity number 5: I never sleep completely naked in case there is a fire, or robbers break into our house in the middle of the night. If I'm going to jump out the window or be held at gunpoint, I will at least be wearing a T-shirt and panties.
And now to pick 5 friends to challenge. I only get five? Shoot.
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