Have you ever learned to fight or taken self-defense lessons – why did you feel this was necessary or was this something that you wanted to know to feel safer?
A man who resorts to violence has already lost the battle.
The Army no longer accepts karate experts. The first time they salute, they kill themselves.
If it’s soft, hit it with your fist. If it’s hard, hit it with a stick.
I haven’t lost a fight since I learned to run.
Now that the humor and philosophy are out of the way…. With my shake, and lack of muscle control, these are all true for me. I could injure myself in training. Backed into a corner – fight fast and dirty. Hit it with a stick, or a brick – and run like Hell. There is no shame in surviving. I use my head to prevent getting into situations where I might have to use my feet. I cannot lose a battle I did not get into. A soft answer turneth away wrath. I’ve also seen humor work.
Do you spell grey as gray and also is it colour or color?
We Canadians confuse the rest of the world. We talk like Americans, spell like the British, and throw in random French words. Socially sandwiched between Britain and the US, I am as likely to spell it grey, as I am gray, without even noticing it until the American English Spell-Check puts a red line beneath it.
I probably have more American readers that I do British or Canadian. Unless I’m submitting Fibbing Fridays to our gracious hostess in Lincolnshire, I tend to leave the redundant U’s out. My blog-tag is spelled humor, not humour.
If you typed as slowly and laboriously as I do, you’d realize that skipping all those extra single letters adds up to me being able to go for dinner just that much earlier.
Are you now or have you ever been afraid of the dark?
NEVER! My family never indulged in the Monsters under the bed or in the closet silliness. Even as a child, I was wise enough to know that there were times and places where there might be something in the dark to be wary of, but never the dark itself.
As a teen, I sometimes participated in a Chase/Hide-and Seek game that had me in dark lumber storage buildings, or abandoned factories. Coming home late at night from the beach bowling alley, I could save half a mile of walking by following an abandoned rail line through a narrow evergreen forest corridor. I learned to feel the ties and rails that I could not see. What I did sometimes see, were fireflies, which made the dark walk worthwhile and enjoyable.
The wife and I have been down in two Virginia caves/caverns. In one, the guide made sure that no-one was fearful, and turned the cave lights off for Total darkness – before glowing watches and smart phones
Where do you prefer to do most of your clothing shopping – online or in-store?
It’s a little hard to try something on over the internet. I remember small-town catalog-shopping with both Canadian Eaton’s, and American Sears. There were too many things that had to be returned – expensive and time-consuming. You never got the right-size replacement in time for a birthday or Christmas present.
Even an item that fit in the store, doesn’t fit when you order it online. Tops get smaller, and shoes get larger – a size 8 then, is a size 10 now. Other than shoes, I may never buy more clothes. I’ll go into my coffin with four shirts and two pairs of pants, looking like an Arctic explorer. I’m searching for the post that revealed that my kindly, thoughtful, OCD, wife has put 42 polo shirts in my closet.
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