For the Curious

[borgmama1of5]

Passed on from ferlonda's lj, since she answered my question.

1 question.

1 chance.

1 honest answer.

That's all you get.

You get to ask me 1 question.

Any question, anything, no matter how crazy, dirty, or wrong it is.

But I dare you to repost this and see what people ask you!

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[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

moi? trouble??

I am searching my conscience and this is going to sound lame, but I can't think of anything memorable that I chose to do knowing that I risked unpleasant consequences.

Although I guess if I widen my interpretation to trouble not of my own volition, it would be the last 3 months on my job where I have received 3 warnings, including a final one, because I wasn't following 'established company policy' on disciplining the employees I supervise. Among other things, I issued a verbal warning to a caregiver who missed giving a client her medications because the caregiver had agreed to go to the client as a last-minute sub when the regular caregiver had a death in the family. When HR found out that I had only issued a verbal warning they not only fired the caregiver for neglect of the client but they wrote me up for not realizing the seriousness of the offense. I argued too hard that there were mitigating circumstances.

The only other incident that comes to mind when thinking about getting in trouble is when I was about 7 and I was supposed to be in bed but wasn't when my brother came upstairs. He came in the room and stood over me--I had just made it under the covers before he walked in, and had my eyes closed. He asked "Are you asleep?" and I remember thinking "If I don't answer he'll think I'm faking," so I said "Yeeesssss" in the sleepiest voice I could muster. For some reason he didn't believe me. But there really weren't any consequences, so it probably doesn't count.

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

I can trace connecting with my husand to a casual conversation I had in 6th grade. I was the nerdy bookworm at that time, who did not have any social life. Mid year a girl transferred into school from California and she didn't really fit either. As it happened we both walked home from school in the same direction and one afternoon, as we were waiting at a stoplight, one of us asked the other, "Did you see the Star Trek episode yesterday?" (At this time the Trek episodes were rerun every day at 4 PM on the local channel.)

I was a total Trekkie, and actually never watched any of the standard TV shows of the time that everyone else talked about. That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Flash forward to high school when my friend was a member of the Civil Air Patrol and for a year kept telling me I had to meet this guy. After graduation, the seniors were allowed to participate in the high school summer play which that year was "Up the Down Stiarcase." I played a sympathetic older teacher who befriended the idealistic newbie. My friend brought Dave to the final show and intorduced us afterwards. I asked if he wanted to go to the cast party but he was leaving early the next morning to take a Greyhound to visit his grandparents in West Virginia, so I told him to send me a postcard with a critique on it.

The next day a florist delivered a dozen purple carnations to my home (I had said purple was my favorite color) and then later in the week I got a postcard that said he enjoyed the show and would call when he returned, and signed it "Love." (I still have the postcard.)

Feeling I had to do something in return I sent blue carnations to his house on the day he was due home. (His favorite color was blue.)

We became a couple right away (we were both 18), got engaged 3 months later, and were married on the 1 year anniversary of meeting at the play. This August we will have been married 34 years.

Side note, I knew his last name was Wilfong and was expecting a little Oriental guy. It's really German (Vil-fong) and he was very blond and blue-eyed and pretty.

Even though at the time I was positive I was mature, I'm reallygald that Sarah was 24 when she got married, and both the other girls are still single and older than I was when I got married.