Tell me about yourself

I want to know random facts and fun stories about people!

Mine is that I know exactly one sentence in Spanish, "eso sì que es," and I only know that because phonetically it spells socks. It means "that's what it is."

 

My dad started teaching me how to drive at age 9 in the horse pasture behind our house, and after i turned 12 he'd send me on little errands to our closer neighbors...before that I'd drive back to the cornfields we owned to deliver stuff, ect. We lived in the country like an hour from any civilization so it was pretty common in my neck of the woods.

And yet i still failed the schools driving test bc he never taught me how to parallel park. ;p

 

People think I am really smart and they are sort of right, but a lot of the knowledge I have is really random, and not even usually useful in a run of the mill pubquiz, unfortunately :P

 

I'm a complete water rat and in the summer you can usually find me lakeside. Kayaking is my favorite, but I also do paddleboarding, swimming, canoeing and general fucking around chasing the ducks.
In the winter, my favorite activities are snowshoeing and ice skating.

 

I have a large collection of fun socks, mostly featuring various cartoon animals, but also with a relatively high geek level :D

 

it's on my blog description, but there's no elaboration beyond "once i ate a leaf" SO the magical story of how harvey ate a leaf off a tree:
i wassss probably 6 or 7, and my Cool (read: asshole) Older Friends told me i should eat a leaf off of this tree with low hanging branches, because it's what salad was made of (they also tried to convince me mashed up fireflies were what ranch is made of, but i'm not that gullible)
ate the leaf. it was gross, and slimy. and my mom called poison control all freaked out

this dark lesson in leaf eating doesn't stop me seeing a tree star or IRL dewy tree leaves and contemplating just. eating a bunch, though. even as an adult

 

I learned how to drive a boat before I learned how to drive a car.

 

Same! I, of course, have a licence for neither. :p
I can dislocate my shoulders! Both of them, no need to touch them, it's painless, and they pop right back in. Usually.

 

the coldest weather I've ever personally experienced is -40° F

 

I have a book from the 1910s that I stole from an abandoned mental institution.

 

I once missed a dorm room foursome because I was busy making tea in a kitchen less than twenty feet away.

 

i once kissed a grasshopper 113 times.


edit: that poor fucking bug.

 

one time two moose visited my garden, then a fox that stole a pig leg in our garden, and also a rat bonded with our bunnies and would chill in the cage

i also have gone arching in the ruins of a viking era church with my friend just because (no arrangement just us two chillin with our bow and arrows. surprisingly legal)

ive slept in a hotel made of ice and they serve the Best juice ever, in glasses made of ice. i was cold as balls and when i woke up i was too cold to move. also the first time i tasted bacon and my brother said my ushanka looked like a bear cooch

i dont live in some weird medieval realm btw

 

I saw like six or seven deer in a field from the train window today

 

when I was 9 years old I discovered that my classroom bully was terrified of bugs, caught a massive grasshopper on a field trip, and proceeded to chase him around with it all day
(fuck you, Graham, I don't care if your dad was a dentist)

 

I've always been pretty quiet and unobtrusive, so people often just don't notice when I'm around, but it became a family in-joke to say that my superpower is invisibility after a family friend at a social event looked straight at me and then almost immediately afterward asked my dad if I hadn't been able to make it since he hadn't seen me all afternoon. (And was genuinely surprised when my dad pointed me out.)

@BunjyWunjy Your story reminds me of the time I figured out that boys would run screaming from me if I chased them around waving a bit of mistletoe broken off from a nearby (oak?) tree. I was the terror of the high seas playground for at least one afternoon. Good times.

 

• I've suffered a number of bizarre injuries in my life, such as catching my finger in a car door (I still have a scar!) and falling into a garbage can filled with styrofoam peanuts (don't ask), but somehow I've managed to never break a bone.
• I made it into the county spelling bee three years in a row, and placed each time, though never high enough to go to state (fourth place in 6th grade, sixth place in both 7th and 8th grade).
• I've been using the internet since I was seven, and I had my first computer when I was a literal toddler (just for playing games, but still).
• I can lick my own nose. Sometimes I use my tongue to fidget with my septum piercing, but not in public 'cause that'd look really fucking weird. Which...in fairness, it is pretty weird of me.
• I've had the same career goal (cartoonist) since I was ten.
• From the ages of seven to thirteen-ish, I had a contact allergy to kiwi fruit--it'd cause my lips to blister horribly! Somehow I don't have that problem anymore (and haven't for about ten, eleven years now), but I'm still wary about eating it, which sucks 'cause it's tasty. :(
• I get ridiculously happy when people offhandedly call me their friend.

 

I won two out of three editions of my secondary school's Harry Potter trivia contest.

My favorite castle is Chillon castle.

 

• i have some hyperflexibility! my joints tend to be weird. my thumbs can bend at angles they normally should not :V and i also can pop my arm out of the socket easy.
• i've had art in an art gallery! just a local one in vegas, and i was in high school, but yeah.
• my friends say i have high charisma stats. i once in fourth grade convinced my best friend at the time to eat a live grasshopper.
• i cry over cute dogs. me and wax and moogle were walking in a park and i saw a very tiny dog. i started sobbing because it was too small. it was so cute.
• i am the only brown haired and brown eyed kid out of my siblings. both of my siblings have blonde hair and blue eyes. i am also the oldest kid.

 

I am allowed to scuba dive down to a maximum depth of 40 meters. The lighting down there is weird, it's kinda like when you're near bedrock in Minecraft.