Comments on: Help Keep Me Inside

By: Pearl

Pearl — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:49:18 +0000

1. I was a graphic design major in college, and therefore spent most of my time at Kinko’s. I ran in there one day, made one copy, and had to use my debit card – for 7 cents. They started giving me things free after that, which came in really handy when I printed off a regulation-size movie poster I had designed that would have easily cost me $65.00.

2. I give my husband cash for Christmas every year, however, he has yet to figure out the trend. One year I gave him a bag with a dollar sign on it, and a statement for an account that had $400 in it. Last year, I found one of those sweet silver briefcases, had some friends paint it, and then filled it with $1 bills. I always manage to give him vague enough hints at Christmas time, that he has NO idea what’s under the tree.

3. I, personally, would love a Futurama or Family Guy themed quiz, but then I’m just a big dufus.

4. Snow, snow…. We don’t get a lot of it in Chattanooga. We had a huge snow storm about 15 years ago. It knocked down 15 trees in our yard, blocked off our driveway (not that we were going anywhere) and took out the power and phone lines to the entire neighborhood. On the other hand, there was one of those plastic “big-wheels” (is that what they are even called??) that had been left on our sidewalk. After the storm, and all the trees fell, the big wheel never moved!

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:51:23 +0000

1. I always end up buying extra chinese food to meet the delivery miniumum. 4 egg rolls usually does the trick.
2. Every year, my mom would get me something Coke themed for Chirstmas, even though I stopped collecting the stuff 5 years ago. This past year, in honor of my new diet, she got me a Diet Coke ornament. har har.
3. Something with food: where such and such originated, what resturant has such and such special dish. I’m hungry.
4. During some blizzard in the 90s (’93, ‘94?), my Dad volunteered to use his 4 wheel drive truck to drive a friend of ours who worked at the National Aquarium in Baltimore to work everyday. He got a bumper sticker for it. I thought it was cool that my Dad was helping keep the dolphins and the fishes alive.
There was also one year when it snowed over night, and in the morning it was freakishly warm. So, we went out and played in the couple inches of snow in shorts and tee shirts.

By: beth

beth — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:42:24 +0000

1. No…but I’ve dug around for enough change to buy something…often digging around in places that shouldn’t be dug!

2. No, but I wish I did…I just don’t know what!

3. You guys do such a good job with coming up with them, who am I to interject a new quiz?

4. This past weekend with my son. I borrowed one of those inner tube things from my neighbor and my son and I went down our back hill together. His giggle was gold.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:56:23 +0000

4) I was about 13 years old at the time, and lived in a rural area with a big hill on our property. It had just snowed with freezing rain on top of that, so there was an impenetrable layer of ice over the snow – I’m sure you know where this is going. I trudged up the hill with my sled, sat down, and launched myself, never breaking through the ice. By the time I got to the bottom of the hill, I estimate I was going about 35mph.

Now the twist: we had just recently had the driveway plowed, which made a ramp on either side of the driveway – I did not take this into consideration before I began. I would like to refer you back to my approaching speed of 35mph… I hit the ramp, became airborne, flew completely over the driveway, cleared the ramp on the other side and landed on my back (a distance of about 25′) with my sled hitting halfway up a tree (about 10′). I laid there for a minute gathering myself and finally thought: THAT WAS AWESOME!

By: K

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:58:40 +0000

Sue, you might enjoy the Discontinued Ben & Jerry’s Flavor or Band I Found on Myspace quiz. (You’ll find the link in my name.)

And here are some more quiz ideas:
- Based on a picture, name the breed of dog/cat/horse;
- Choose who voiced the cartoon character;
- Match the new/old slogan to the fast food company;
- Match the sport to its inventor;
- In each question, select which game hasn’t been a Monopoly spin-off.

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:25:24 +0000

1. i didn’t know there was a minimum at the copy store and i went in and realised after i had made all my copies that i needed one colour copy.
i didn’t have the 40 cents or whatever it was, and the minimum charge was a dollar, so i had to make three colour copies.

3. discontinued ben and jerry’s ice creams. we’ve all had a favorite that was discontinued because they have so many short lived flavours. i was a particular fan of “dilbert’s totally nuts”.

4. i am having a hard time thinking of a favorite snow story, because like anyone who has to deal most of the year with the stuff, i think it’s sucks hard. lol
but i guess the only story i can think of that doesn’t sound totally inappropriate is one time when i was a little kid (it must have been 1st grade or sometimes therabouts) our class got to go to one of the other kid’s houses, during the school day, and spend the afternoon making snowmen.
BIG snowmen, because the adults could help us lift the monsters.
we even got a snack (trust me, until i became an adult the idea of breakfast or a afternoon snack was pretty foreign to me).
it was good snow too. heavy and wet but not TOO wet and there was a lot fo it.
and it was clean.
actually, we had some snow like that in december and i made a little snowman out in my front “yard” (ok, it’s a bush with two thin strips of grass and lots of concrete sidewalk) that was of good size with random litter pushed into it to make a face and such.
it melted the next day, but thankfully no one kicked it down.

there you go, two-for-one.

By: SM

SM — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:09:40 +0000

1) I like to use cash, but sometimes I find that I am a dollar or two short and have to break out the card. That’s annoying….I do recall buying a bag of rubber bands at Hobby Lobby because I needed two and the smallest amount in a bag I could find was 100.

2) My sister gets a nutcraker every year for Christmas. The fancy ones that you shouldn’t actually use to crack your nuts. She has a ballerina, three mariachi ones (my favorite), one that looks like Santa and a bunch of others.

3) I love the quizes! I play them at work every day! Some topics: Cartoon villans, Aesop’s fables, The Simpsons trivia, I also liked the idea of Friends guest stars.

4) What’s your best snow memory? I grew up in Colorado so we got plenty of snow, but I went to Swansea, Wales for study abroad in 2005 and people there didn’t really know what to do when it snowed. Things shut down for half a day if there was just a dusting. One morning I woke up to a loud series of thuds outside my window. I looked out to see about an inch of snow and the boys who lived in the flat below me were out playing in it by throwing snowballs at our windows. I quickly got dressed to go romp in the white, but one of my flatmates was not as amused. She had left her window (with no screen) open the night before and woke up to snowballs in her bed and one landed on her face. We threw snow at each other and tried to make a small snow man until about noon when the sun came out and zapped the snow away. Great fun.

By: Misty

Misty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:22:23 +0000

These days I have no problem using my card for anything, as I don’t carry cash. I regularly pay for my 84-cent happy-hour coke at Sonic with my debit card. (they put the reader right there next to your car window… it’s just so convienient.) However, when I was in college I both felt silly charging small amounts to my card and never (and I mean never) had blue books when I needed them. Since blue books only cost like 15-cents a piece, I would sometimes buy them for the whole class, usually along with some snacks and whatever cute pen they had on the checkout counter, just to make the purchace add up to more. (You know, if I hadn’t given them all out, maybe I’d have had blue books for the next time I needed them…)

By: Moon

Moon — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:39:03 +0000

I grew up in North Dakota. I try to FORGET all my snow memories.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:12:31 +0000

1 – I have a coworker who will write you a check for $0.41 to cover the cost of the stamp she bought off you as she never carries cash

2 – christmas ornaments since I was born from my grandma. And she never gets the same one twice and always tries to find very unusual ones. So when I first moved away from home my mom packed up all my ornaments for me so I could decorate my own tree. I now have more ornaments than I have tree.

4 – many snow stories from over the years. How about the blizzard of ‘79 in chicago that we couldn’t get the side door of the house open becuase the wind had blown all the snow up against the house. We could climb up on the roof and slide down.

My husband has similar stories from upper wisconsin and building about 1/2 mile of tunnels in the yard with his brothers from all the snow piled up over the winter of shoveling the driveway.