Two truths and a lie

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1. I used to collect furry caterpillars. They were my special friends in the field behind my primary school, and I played with them during all my breaks.

2. I collected "spoons" from places around the world. My dad made a wooden holder thing that hung on the wall. It looked like the shape of a family coat of arms. I displayed my spoons on it.

3. I collected whirlies / pinwheels and kept them stuck on the sides of my canopy bed. I still buy them every time I see them in a shop.

Especially if you consider caterpillars worms, your lie is certainly #1.

1 is true. I didn't mind caterpillars because they had fur, feet, a face and a "direction". Those other monsters do not.


I don't consider them similar at all.

2 is true. I have no idea where my spoon collection has gone, but maybe I will check for it at my mother's house some time.
I wonder if I'd like to display it again. (I'll see how it makes me feel).

3 is my lie. I loved whirlies but I didn't collect them per se. I just had them one at a time, I think.

1. I was once caught shoplifting a jacks set at a store called McCrory's.

2. I was caught shoplifting a book about basketball at a bookstore whose name I forget.

3. I used to love it when the choo-choo train gave you your food at Maxwell House restaurants.

I've never heard of what you describe in 3.

I pick 2, though. I know you stole something once (#1?) but I don't think it was a basketball book and you wouldn't forget the name of the shop.

LOL....I did forget the name of the bookstore---and I wasn't caught shoplifting the book on basketball, though I did shoplift it. It was located on Queens Boulevard, right next to the billiard parlor.

1. My grandfather told me to write a book about our family.

2. My grandmother told me to never sit on a boy's lap unless I put a phone book between us.

3. My mother told me not to take wooden nickels from anyone.

#3 is quite the New York expression---but I believe your mother told you that, anyway. I still tell people: "Don't take any wooden nickels!"

I would say the lie is #2. It just doesn't make much sense.

1 is my lie. My maternal grandmother (not grandfather) wanted me to write a book about us during her lifetime. She'd likely be happy that I haven't, given all that has transpired.

2 is true (also maternal grandmother)

3 is true but I had no idea what the saying meant. I just figured it out a few years ago, after having the misfortune of taking far too many wooden nickels from far too many people for far too long.

It means the same thing as “Don’t allow somebody to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.”

If somebody wants to call somebody naive, they might say “Have I got a bridge for you!”

I've never heard that one.
I wish my mother had taught me how to identify wooden nickels instead of telling me to avoid them.



Sit inside or outside on the patio, at a pub?

1. Until the 1980s, I didn't know what a "mall" was.

2. Until 1974, I didn't know that a "prophylactic" was a condom.

3. Until 1969, I didn't know who the President of the United States was.

I think 3 is true.

I pick 2 as your lie. You were a different age.

Nope. I knew that the President of the United States was Lyndon Johnson in 1968. I knew that Nixon was a candidate for President in 1968, as well as Hubert Humphrey.

1. I only have four cousins on my father's side, all siblings. Two of them were adopted.

2. One of those cousins now lives in Mexico.

3. My female cousin (above) lives within a twenty minute drive of me, but I only see her at funerals every few years.

#1. I don't believe TWO were adopted.