Yes, and I’ve also eaten corned beef and cabbage NOT on St. Patrick’s Day.
Have you ever protested at a St. Patrick’s Day parade?
Yes, during the whole “Gays can’t march in the NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade.”
HYE taken something from a clothes donation box?
Yes, when I lived on the streets…but I had permission from the attendant because it was after hours and my shirt was ripped.
HYE drank green beer?
Yes, both the kind that has only undergone primary fermentation, and the food coloring in one’s Coors Lite sort
HYE drank wine out of a Styrofoam cup?
I’m sure I have, although I don’t have a specific recollection. I do recall drinking bad wine from Dixie Riddle Cups in the late 1970s.
Have you ever taken a beer into the shower with you (or wine, but that seems wrong)?
I don’t drink. But I used to clean my sons bachelor pad and I often removed beer cans from the bathroom and shower. Thought it was weird. I’m now informed it’s a thing. Hmmm?
HYE cleaned someone else’s house? Not as a paid housekeeper but as a favor?
Yes, my parent’s elderly neighbor and good family friend lost his wife of 60 years and ended up permanently moving into a nursing home due to the same car accident. Their children all lived far out of the area and offered to pay us to clean up their house and prep it for sale. We declined their offer of payment but did clean it for them. Very sad situation - they were good folks.
HYE worked as a paid housekeeper or custodian?
My first job was night janitor at a factory. I hated it, hated it, hated it.
Have You Ever hired a paid housekeeper or cleaning service?
I never have, but my mom used to hire a very nice lady, Geraldine, to come clean once a week.
HYE felt resentful cleaning up someone else’s mess?
Yes I have. Someone keeps dumping their trash on our road. Granted, unless you know you might not think someone lives down here. But still, people take responsibility for your garbage. Dump in appropriate places, please. So rude.
HYE dumpster dove (dived)?
Yes, many times at construction sites when I was still working. I still have a fine supply of odd-sized plywood, 2x4s, PVC pipe, etc.
HYE picked up a perfectly usable item that was abandoned/forgotten in a public place?
Yes, when I was in college, and for a few years afterward, my entire apartment was furnished with other people’s trash. It’s amazing what a coat of paint or a throw can accomplish.
And, thus, the thread dies, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
HYE been the last one to post in a thread?
Now and then. Sometimes I even was the OP!
HYE used an acronym that those around you didn’t understand?
Yes, every time I teach grammar and coordinating conjunctions, I go over the section in the textbook that uses the acronym FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) No matter how many times I explain it, some slow students still say “duh?”
Have you ever mangled/misspoken an acronym and confused others around you, or yourself?
Yes. I thought ‘lol’ meant ‘loads of laughter’. I actually convinced a few folks it was true, even after I knew better.
HYE called someone you knew really well the wrong name for no good reason? Just a brain fart or something.
Yes. I once called a friend named Blair, “Brad.” He looked around and asked, “Who are you talking to?” It was indeed a brain fart.
Have you ever been given an unusual nickname?
Yes, Freshman in college, living in a rooming house. I got the flu and promptly gave it to all my housemates. For the rest of the year, I was “Germ”.
Have you ever borrowed money that you never paid back?
Yes. In one of the campus buildings where I did my undergrad was a small, unobtrusive coffee shop that was a little bit out of the ordinary. It sold coffee, of course, but also gum, candy, chips and snacks, cigarettes, and for some strange reason, universtity-branded athletic wear (T-shirts, sweat pants, and so on). No baked goods or donuts or other typical coffee shop eats. It had a few tables, and one was always occupied by my friends and me in the afternoons. I drank more coffee there than possibly anywhere else on campus. Great times!
Go forward maybe thirty years. I was back in town, and wandering through the campus. I thought I might get some coffee where I always used to. Nope, it was no longer there. It hadn’t been open for years, I learned, and was now used for storage. I got some coffee elsewhere on campus, but it just wasn’t the same.
Have you ever gone back to visit your school(s)?