Have You Ever...?

Yes. Recently had my first root canal. Wasn’t fun, but it’s quite nice not to have that pain anymore.

Have you ever (as an adult) been unable to care for yourself because of injury or health problems?

Yes. After outpatient surgery, I left the hospital groggy from the anaesthesia, and unable to drive. Thankfully, my (now-ex) wife was there to drive me home and to get me in the house. I had a prescription, that she got for me at the drugstore–it was a pretty powerful painkiller, and left me still groggy, so she looked after me for a couple of days. Not a fun time, being that helpless.

Have you ever fallen asleep in front of a fire in the fireplace?

Fireplace, no. Wood burning stove, yes. And a very nice night it was too.

Have you had a truly eye-popping hangover in the last year?

Yes! My trick is to enjoy the fact that I will be slowly feeling progressively better as the day goes on, as opposed to the non-hungovered who will slowly tire out as the day devolves.

Have you ever gone a year without a single hangover?

Yes, many, since college.

HYE declined to sing “Jingle Bells” when others around you were singing it?

Yes, I avoid this one whenever possible. A better one to ask is…

HYE declined to sing “Happy Birthday” when others around you were singing it (and it’s not your own birthday)?

I always decline to sing I have a terrible singing voice.

HYE gotten lost in your own neighborhood?

Hell, I’ve gotten lost in my own house. (see mushrooms)

Have you ever had to deal with an airline misplacing your luggage?

Yes, twice, but both times it was found relatively quickly and delivered to me.

HYE declined to use Google Maps and then gotten lost?

Flight from Portland to Kansas City, MO-two pieces of luggage lost. They went to San Diego, but I got a call two days later to come pick them up at the airport.
The problem is that the call came from LaGuardia Airport in New York.
Google maps? Lost many times not using them, and lost 1/2 as many times using them.

HYE picked up a hitchhiker and gotten a bad experience?

Not bad ones, but some unusual experiences, including being propositioned for sex by both men and women numerous times. Ah, the seventies! :slight_smile:

Have you ever had sex with someone you’ve know for less than fifteen minutes?

Oh yeah, lots of times. In the seventies.

HYE sneezed while blowing out your birthday cake candles?

Uh, no. Yhat would be unfortunate in the extreme

HYE been on a tour of a manufacturing facility, and gotten some sort of free sample at the end?

Several times but my favorite was a tour of the Russell Stover factory. I got a free Whitman’s sampler box plus we were each able to select a couple of packages from a big rack of factory seconds. That was some of the ugliest cashew brittle I ever saw but I didn’t begin to care about it’s appearance. It was gonna look a lot worse when I was finished with it.

HYE tried to save money by purchasing factory reject products with purely cosmetic flaws?

Yes, all the time. I have bought factory-reject clothes from discount stores, scratch and dent appliances, and even an aluminum shed that was discounted just because the box was damaged.

HYE fallen more than 6 feet down?

Yes, as a kid, out of trees and once off the roof of our house. Just had the wind knocked out of me, fortunately.

HYE been in a car accident that sent someone (not necessarily you) to the hospital?

Kinda sorta. I was in a car accident once, and a passenger in the other car decided she needed a doctor. But since both cars were driveable, and she was alert and walking around outside the car; the police officer who attended helpfully suggested that rather than an ambulance, there was a walk-in clinic a block away. So that’s where she went to see a doctor.

Have you ever performed a card trick?

No, but I’ve seen a few in my day.

HYE seen the card trick Little Moe done?

Not that I know of

HYE skipped along while holding a picnic basket and sang “a tisket a tasket…”

I think I did once! You know, for kids.

Little Moe is a card trick that uses every card in the deck. My dad very closely watched a bartender on the Delta Queen do it; the bartender wouldn’t explain it or reveal the trick, but my dad eventually figured it out.

HYE known a guy named Moe?