Two truths and a lie

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Just realised I used the mosquito one twice, right after eachother.... sorry, my multi-tasking abilities are a bit hit and miss.

My lie was that I wore braces, although it was true that I told my stuffed toys that my thumb was a pipe.

Here are some fresh ones...

1. As an adult (over 15) I only ever let two people call me their "girlfriend."
2. When I broke things off with the first one, in an attempt to make it easier for him, I set him up with a whole new life in a different part of the country before telling him it was over.
3. We still speak, but very seldom.

You only let one man call you his “girlfriend.”

How did you “set up” some guy in a different part of the country? That should make an interesting story.

No two, "that guy" and my husband.

Well.... it took some doing. I thought it was kind and considerate and I am always surprised when others think it would have been much kinder to just tell him it was over long before.

My lie was that we keep contact. We have no contact whatsoever.

Some of my first jobs were

Cleaning out meat trucks with a power hose

Bagging groceries.

Safety patrol at school.

Oh, I like #1. It is very bukowski. I am guessing the lie is 3.

1. I once went out with someone who came up to me at the bus stop and asked me to play Cass in the most beautiful woman in town in a play he was doing for his film studies exam. Not because of the compliment but because he was carrying a copy of the play and other bukowski stories and I grabbed it and started reading and couldn't stop.
2. I am hardly ever homesick.
3. The thing I like best about myself is my strong mental health.

Bagging groceries.


Your husband is lucky to have someone like you, Elsa. I’m curious as to how you “set up” the other guy. Was it with another woman? Or another house/apartment?

I think 3 for drlaugh

#3 for Elsa.

1. My mother has heart problems.

2. My father has had hernia surgery many times.

3. I seemed to have vomited all the time as a very young child.

Last edited by kraftiekortie on 16 Jun 2018, 8:39 am, edited 2 times in total.

No with a new course of study and career in a fairly far away place! It went ok, he enjoyed his career change! He became extremely fit and a rower as well and seemed fine. Just not overly pleased with me. But he was always a bit of a pessimist.

To be honest, I also set my husband up with his current career. Found the job, wrote the application, sent him off for the interview. He has done really well and has a great job now.

Also, once when my female friend felt she was getting nowhere with a Canadian guy she met travelling I offered to email him on her behalf late one night. We woke up the next morning and she had a reply in her inbox saying he was setting off to see her in London. That seriously backfired once he arrived though but that is another story,,,,

I do think I have some peculiar powers of persuasion.

Last edited by elsapelsa on 16 Jun 2018, 8:35 am, edited 1 time in total.

Nope. Mine is 2, I am fairly often homesick.

Bagging is correct.

Powers of persuasion
A power to be used for good or evil.

With great power comes Steve Ditko art.

You probably advocate better for other people than yourself, Elsa.

You probably have some “genius” of which you might not be aware...but maybe you are, But perhaps some sort of modesty is holding you back.

I hardly ever get homesick....not even as a very young child. I have an itinerant mind. I have limitations in myself which are irritating.


1. I have not always been the Wolfman.

2. I wanted to go to the “Horizon School” at age 7 because of the word “Horizon.”

3. I got to go to the Horizon School for one year.....but it became too expensive for my parents.

Good day, Kortie!
I think you're lying and it's proven by #3!

#3 is correct.....but I never got to go to that school. Maybe if I expressed an interest, who knows?

I had to stop going to the Summit School because of costs.

1. I fared poorly on a few of my poetry papers concerning imagery. I frequently cited that poems evoked the "wrong" colours or textures because of my synaesthesia, rather than citing imagery more directly implied in the text. I had no idea I had synaesthesia and was very frustrated about how I could be "wrong" about the imagery I experienced.

2. My favourite poets were Byron, Shelley, Keats, E. Bronte, Whitman and Yates, pretty much in that order as well.

3. I am still discovering "more" variations of synaesthesia that I experience, without having previously labelled them as such. I would be interested in anyone's recommendation of an esteemed resource on synaesthesia, particularly for people with ASD or other forms of neurodiversity.

Homesickness for me is like a constant state. but I am pretty sure I couldn't actually live there ever again. It is more like a type of restlessness maybe.

I am no genius, but I have some ability to "trick the system" which comes from decoding the system at great depth.

1. My favourite ever book is "on the genealogy of morals", i find it fits nearly every situation, light reading, bedtime reading, dip in and out reading, serious decoding.... and it makes me laugh and think in equal measure.
2. I abhor writing in books.
3. My least favourite thing about myself is my lack of consistency in social aptitude and the great exhaustion which hits me after social interactions.