View, unobstructed wrote:

gabriele wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

oh, hi again  

This is moving fast today.  My husband is working his part-time job at the golf course and I am catching up on some little tasks.  

Helpful hint:  I have started a little box in my kitchen drawer full of  - oh - let's say a recipe card cut in 1/2.  On these little cards or scraps of paper I have written chores that need to be done again and again week after week.   I just lay out on the counter by the coffee pot some of these repetitive "to dos"   Like -  - it's garbage day,  check on auntie,  kitchen floor,  sew/mend, shop for recipe,  etc.   


I can think of many little fibs...and truths....it's hard to think of something that sounds like a lie but is not.


o.k.

I am currently reading a book that has 4 characters with names the same as we have in our family!
 
I hate it when restaurant wait staff give me their name as if we have just become best friends.
 
My home is full of abstract modern art.
 
 

How about your home is not full of abstract modern art, view?   
 

That is a true statement, gabriele.  Many of them by Paul Klee 

When I bought my mother's house after she died, I wanted to take advantage of the fact that it is a mid-century ranch built in 1965 for her by her second husband, a home builder.  (That's a cute story in itself - for another time)
Living room, dining room, hallway are quite starkly white and black..  With the large modern, colorful prints it reminds me a little of a gallery.  




In an ironic nod....this one below is "Flooding"




 

Ok....so this is later....about 1 minute later!!

I'm guessing that #1 is the lie, View. 

So #2 is the lie, and oddly enough that is what I thought when I first saw your list.  I just doesn't sound like you or anyone on this board, for that matter. But I did not log on to post for this simple reason, I have already had several turns.  In order to keep the game going, however, here is my new list of two truths and a lie

I once lived with a county sheriff and his family.
I love the hot weather. 
My father-in-law was frequently mistaken for Jackie Gleason.   

KeepOnSinging wrote:

So #2 is the lie, and oddly enough that is what I thought when I first saw your list.  I just doesn't sound like you or anyone on this board, for that matter. But I did not log on to post for this simple reason, I have already had several turns.  In order to keep the game going, however, here is my new list of two truths and a lie

I once lived with a county sheriff and his family.
I love the hot weather. 
My father-in-law was frequently mistaken for Jackie Gleason.   

Hmmmm......lets see......I am going to guess number 2 is the lie....LOL....but only because I know you live up north

View, unobstructed wrote:

These are such good statements.   I'm like you, KOS...I'm not going to even guess in hopes that some of the other sisters will get involved too.


Oh.  LOL   And by the way, it's my husband who is annoyed when waiters tell him their name... For one, he can't hear very well anymore.  So he's got them repeating it two or three times in case they are saying something about what the specials are for the evening.

Then later, it's "where's our watier....was it Jordan, or Justin?   Josh?"    

"I think it was Tyler"  I say.    Say, would you have Tyler stop by our table,  please.    Oh,   Tyler's shift is over.

I love this little story.

april6263 wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

So #2 is the lie, and oddly enough that is what I thought when I first saw your list.  I just doesn't sound like you or anyone on this board, for that matter. But I did not log on to post for this simple reason, I have already had several turns.  In order to keep the game going, however, here is my new list of two truths and a lie

I once lived with a county sheriff and his family.
I love the hot weather. 
My father-in-law was frequently mistaken for Jackie Gleason.   

Hmmmm......lets see......I am going to guess number 2 is the lie....LOL....but only because I know you live up north

#2 is the lie, April.  While I would love to be living in the south next to an ocean, I do not enjoy the hot weather when I am having to do anything other than take it easy during the heat.  So I do prefer even cold weather to hot weather.

About #1.  My mom and we five children came back from communist China in early 1952 and landed in Memphis, Tenn. For the first time in my life I went to a formal school for the last half of 5th grade.  Then my dad came home and I entered another school for sixth grade.  I began JR. HIgh School but in ninth grade my parents moved to a different home and I found myself finishing out 9th grade in a new high school that was a 9-12 instead of a 10-12 high school. The following year also brought changes and my family moved to another city.  The only reason that I did not move half way through my sophomore year with them is that the sheriff of Shelby County and his wife, who had gotten to know my folks, also knew that my folks felt very badly about my having to switch schools yet again.  So they came to my mom and dad and asked them to consider allowing me to live with them and finish out the year.  

About #3. My father-in-law looked and sounded so much like Jackie Gleason that he was once thrown out of a hotel that had banned Jackie Gleason because Jackie Gleason had gotten drunk and cause trouble one too many times.