Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing

1. Have you watched American Horror Story?
No

2. Baseball hat or toque?
Toque

3. Do you shampoo or soap up first in the shower?
Soap up

4. Wet the toothbrush or brush dry with the toothpaste?
Sometimes one, sometimes the other.

5. Pen or pencil?
Depends. For notes and checks, roller-ball pen; for puzzles, erasable pens; knitting pattern notes, pencil.

6. Have you ever gambled at a casino?
The first time we went to Las Vegas, we felt we had to at least go into a casino. We each took $5.00. I played the slot machines (still had to use a level then), and lost it all in about 30 minutes. That was enough. Haven't been in a casino since.

7. Have you thrown up on a plane?
No

8. Have you thrown up in a car?
No

9. Have you thrown up at work?
No.

10. Do you scream on roller coasters?
I haven't ridden on a roller coaster in years, but the 1-2 times I’m sure I have done in the past, I probably didn’t scream.

11. How many shoes do you have?
Pairs? I don’t know - not too many. How many do I have that I actually wear? Probably 5-6.

12. Who was your first roommate?
Anne one year at Girl Scout camp. Then Ann (can’t remember her last name), during the summer I worked at a resort hotel in Colorado in 1955.

13. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk for the first time?
Bourbon and water

14. What was your first job?
Typing old autopsy reports in a hospital laboratory. I was in my midteens. My father (who had died a couple of years earlier) had been a professor of pathology at a medical school. It was a nepotism sort of job. But it was where I honed my typing skills, learned to transcribe medical records, and learned anatomy terminology and spelling.

15. What was your first car?
I’ve never had a car by myself, but John did insist that I pick out the one I have now - so I did all the looking myself. It’s a 2006 Nissan Altima.

16. When did you go to your first funeral?
When I was in college - a high school friend died.

17. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown?
25

18. Who was your first grade teacher?
Mrs. Wildermuth. Would you believe John and I had the same first grade teacher at Buder School in St. Louis in the early 1940s, but didn’t meet until we were students at Rice in Houston in the mid 1950s. And we've met a couple of people since then who had her, too.

19. Where did you go on your first airplane ride?
I think I flew from Nashville to Washington DC.

20. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
I don’t think I ever did sneak out of the house. So dull.

21. Who was your first best friend and are you still friends with them?
Betty Lou was my first best friend (5th grade), and we have rare contact. Anne was my second best friend (met her the summer before high school), and although she lives in Houston and I live in Chattanooga, we see each other once or twice a year.

22. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents’ house?
When I moved in with my husband.

23. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day?
John - don’t have to call him. He’s right there to get the brunt of it.

24. Whose wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsmen?
I’ve only been in two weddings, Betty Lou’s and Anne’s - matron of honor in both.

25. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Go to the bathroom, then have breakfast.

26. What was the first concert you attended?
Jimmy Buffett.

27. First tattoo or piercing?
I didn’t get my ears pierced until the early 1980s. I had bought some gold earrings on our first trip to the Caribbean, and had to get them done. Still only one hole in each ear. My only tattoos are the two blue dots I got when I had radiation for breast cancer.

28. First celebrity crush?
Someone you’ve probably never heard of - Stewart Granger.
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