Kryptonite: You are powerless against it, and unable to remove yourself from its presence. What substance can immediately sap you of your strength and will?
Spinnach: It can rouse you from the drowsiest drowse, it’s what enables you to dig deepest and come through in a crisis.
Curiously enough, for me, both answers are coffee.
Spinach: Coffee. It is the greatest of God’s gifts to us. (I know some people think that’s wrong, that God’s greatest gift is love–but love s not available for all, whereas a good cuppa joe is.)
Kryptonite: A woman, whom I have known previously or not, showing considerably more than strictly social interest in me…
Spinach: A woman, whom I have known previously or not, showing consi…
Well, you get the idea…I notice that Inigo mentions that his strength AND weakness are both coffee. I wonder if that might not be a common point, that one’s strength, AND one’s weakness are often one and the same?
Kryptonite: Bugs. God I hate bugs. Big ones, little ones, flying ones, crawling ones. Gah. Also mice. I suppose rats, except I’ve never actually run across one, thank goodness. Pretty much anything that qualifies as a creepy-crawly. Especially those damned bugs, though.
Spinach: Coffee. I love coffee even more than I hate bugs.
Kryptonite: Women crying. A crying woman I can’t stand to see. It makes me want to do ridiculous things to make them stop crying, like driving 75 miles to help (true story) or spending a few hundred bucks to cheer them up (true story). Luckily for me, its a controlled weakness. both of those examples happened to me, but i don’t regret them. It always depends on the situation. But its a weakness. A womans tears can always sway me.
Spinach: Self preservation. If i’m scared enough I’ve done things I didn’t think I was capable of.
Kryptonite: Snakes and big spiders. I hate snakes. They just freak me out. Itty-bitty spiders that I can step on and squash are okay, but the big hairy ones are scary.
Spinach: A well-timed compliment. Kind words can go a long way. Also, just to jump on the band wagon, a big cup of coffee, with fake sweetener and real cream. I wasn’t sure, and then when I read the other replies, that seemed appropriate. Nothing like a big ole cuppa joe.
Red Kryptonite - Jagermeister. Remember how you never knew what would happen to Superman when he was exposed? I feel the same way about Jagermeister. As soon as the first shot goes down, it’s Anything Can Happen Day.
Green Kryptonite - Dunkin’ Donuts Boston Kremes. Left alone in a room full of these donuts, I would eat myself into a food coma not seen since that guy exploded in that Monty Python movie. I shit you not.
Spinach - Coffee is the obvious answer. Then again, a Black Cherry Fresca is nearly as invigorating these days.
Kryptonite: Television. I hate that idiot box. If there’s one on in a room, it takes damn near all my concentration to not watch it. No matter how crappy whatever’s on, it draws me in and slowly kills my brain cells off one by one …
Spinach:We all hail to the great black bean, all glory to the god Caffeine!
Kryptonite: Solitude. Most of the biggest regrets in my life are things I did due to loneliness and/or horniness. I don’t do “alone” very well at all.
Spinach: Until fairly recently, I would have said “MDMA.” Now, I would say exercise. A good workout leaves me happy, relaxed and focused for the next day or two (at which point, ideally, I go work out again).