11
Jun

One of These Things is Not Like the Other…

Filed in Bits & Pieces Fridays

 No, this isn’t a post about hot dogs but it’s the best I could do to illustrate the topic for today’s Bits & Pieces…

Oddities

1) What’s the oddest collection you ever had as a kid?

2) Who is your oddest relative (names optional to protect the innocent) and why?

3) Do you have any odd physical characteristics? What?

4) If you could do one crazy (and, yes, odd) thing wherever you are at this very minute (with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever), what would you do?

~Elizabeth

P.S. I’m off to Printer’s Row Lit Fest in downtown Chicago for the weekend. If you’re in the area, I’ll be signing at the Big Sleep Books tent at noon on both Saturday and Sunday! Stop by and say hi!

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4 Responses to “One of These Things is Not Like the Other…”

  1. Lynn
    June 11th, 2010 at 7:00 am

    1) What’s the oddest collection you ever had as a kid? Old text books so I could take the class on my own.

    2) Who is your oddest relative (names optional to protect the innocent) and why? Sigh, all my relatives are odd. Let’s pick on my step brother who’s not here anymore to defend himself… At his funeral we met his twenty year old daughter for the first time. And that’s just the beginning of the stories.

    3) Do you have any odd physical characteristics? What? One of my arms is bigger than the other. Some days a lot bigger. Who knew you needed those pesky lymph nodes they like to take out with the cancer?

    4) If you could do one crazy (and, yes, odd) thing wherever you are at this very minute (with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever), what would you do?
    Take off for the weekend with a full tank of gas, the puppies with a babysitter, and absolutely no where to go…. And see where we wind up.

  2. Dru
    June 11th, 2010 at 8:41 am

    1. oddest collection – spiders and alas they all died
    2. oddest family member – none that I can think of
    3. odd physical characteristics – ?
    4. crazy thing – take over the oil clean-up and have it done once and for all

  3. Mary
    June 11th, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    1) What’s the oddest collection you ever had as a kid? I STILL HAVE IT AND STILL MAINTAIN IT – HOLY CARDS LIKE THOSE YOU GET AT THE FUNERAL HOME WHEN SOMEONE DIES. I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND THE NUNS WERE ALWAYS GIVING THEM TO US SO WE USED TO EVEN TRADE THEM LIKE BASEBALL CARDS…DURING MASS OF COURSE BECAUSE THEY WERE STUCK IN EVERY OTHER PAGE OF OUR MISSALS. THEN WE’D GET BUSTED FOR GOOFING OFF IN CHURCH AND WE’D GET ANOTHER HOLY CARD FROM OUR NUN THAT SOMEHOW ABSOLVED US FROM OUR SIN!! THE ONES I COLLECT NOW ARE THOSE FROM FRIENDS OR RELATIVES WHO PASS AWAY – WITH A MUCH DIFFERENT INTENT THAN WHEN I WAS A CHILD. BUT SOMETIMES I LoOK AT MY BOX OF HOLY CARDS AND THINK TO MYSELF…NOW WHO THE HECK WAS THIS PERSON REMEMBERING THAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATES’ GREAT UNCLE!?!

    2) Who is your oddest relative (names optional to protect the innocent) and why? I HAVE RELATIVES WHO SEE ANGELS. I HAVE A (DEAD) COUSIN WHO WAS A STALKER. I HAD AN AUNT WHO LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE HER CAT. CAN I STOP NOW? (MY MOM HAD 12 BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND I HAVE ABOUT 50 COUSINS SO YOU KNOW THAT OUR PERCENTAGE FOR STRANGENESS IS GOING TO BE HIGHER WITH ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE!)

    3) Do you have any odd physical characteristics? What? ONE OF MY EYES IS SMALLER & A PUPIL IS LARGER (DUE TO SURGERY) THAN THE OTHER. AND I HAVE A STUPID COWLICK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF MY HEAD.

    4) If you could do one crazy (and, yes, odd) thing wherever you are at this very minute (with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever), what would you do? WHEN MY HUSBAND GETS HOME FROM WORK I WOULD LIKE TO RUN AWAY TO WHERE WE CAN’T BE FOUND UNTIL WE WANT TO BE FOUND.

  4. Elizabeth
    June 14th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    Mary, your HOLY CARD collection (and the swapping like baseball cards) made me laugh out loud!!! Too funny.

    Now that I’m back from Chicago, I can answer, too.

    1) Odd collection: I had Smurfs as a kid, does that count?

    2) Oddest relative? Hmmmm. They weren’t TRULY odd but I remember when some cousins came from Ireland one summer. I was about 10. I remember giggling with my brother over the bathing suits the boys wore.

    3) Odd physical characteristic. I have toes just like Ashton Kutcher. A set on each foot. And once he showed his on Jay Leno, I’ve been proud to wear flip flops ever since.

    4) I’d drive to the beach. And lay out all day (stopping only for milk shake breaks).

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