Things I May Have Done
There was a meme floating around a while back on Ten Things I've Done that Maybe You Haven't. At the time I thought--yeah, my life has been so boring that there's nothing that I've done that everyone and their brother hasn't also done.
But then today it occured to me in passing that I've never lived in suburbia, which, while not a thing I've done led me to think about what I have done that maybe not everyone has. Here are a few I can think of:
- Milked cows by hand
- Showed hogs at county fair
- Saw Niagara Falls with the water turned off
- Judged dairy cattle
- Lived in the Ten Commandmants
- Built a twelve-foot dog walk in one day
- Lived in a house with a crank telephone
And possibly more but, damn, aren't these exciting enough?
Comments
Enquiring minds want to know how you lived in the ten commmandments ... (right now I am picturing a house shaped like 2 giant tablets ...)
Posted by: chance | July 30, 2005 07:28 AM
Yes, well...:-) It was old mill housing down behind this Stephen King-ish New England mill that sprawled all over the river and up a hill. Parts of the mill had been turned into a grocery store and a five and dime, but other parts were still just old mill. The Ten Commandments was basically a set of ten row houses right behind the mill on the river where I lived when I was in graduate school. They called it that because, so the story goes, all ten commandments had been broken there at one time or another. Which was almost certainly true (though I don't know about the graven images thing) but they'd been fixed up since then.
I never found it particularly scary though it is where I had this conversation:
Punky Teenager: I like your car. I thought about stealing your wheels.
Me: I hope you thought again.
Punky Teenager: Well, yeah, because now you'd know it was me.
Posted by: debco | July 30, 2005 10:26 AM