Friday, January 21, 2011

one time...

  • ...I gave a woman the Heimlich maneuver at a Chinese restaurant. It felt like television. Only, no one clapped or cheered afterwards.
  • ...when I was about 9 on a school field trip, I bought a Canadian coin from the mint in Winnipeg. Sealed in a plastic case, it had never been touched by human hands. On the bus ride home, I chewed it out of the plastic holder so I could be the first human to touch it.
  • ...I drove my parents car around the block a few times. I was eleven. I told them about it. When I was eighteen.
  • ...I saw ravens for the first time on a girl scout camp out. They were huge. I thought they were a sign of the rapture. For real. (They weren't a sign of the rapture. They were just regular ravens.)

Happy weekend.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

you are my kind of crazy. :)

Anonymous said...

I never thought about how we took international field trips as elementary kids. Huh! Good stuff. :)

Jen said...

Cracking. Up! Especially over the joyride you didn't 'fess up to for 7 years. :D

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the smiles today.....these memories made my day!

Nonna said...

mine too :) 1437

Visty said...

I don't know how I missed this, but this makes me love you about ten times more all of a sudden.