I figure seventy days is long enough for anyone to get to know me. (I’m not that complicated.) And so, since yesterday was my seventieth day of writing this awe-inspiring stupid blog, I should be able to quiz everyone. But not just any quiz. No, that would be dull. This quiz will be completely about me. (See? Much more exciting.) We’ll start off easy: What’s my favorite color? Nope. Try again. No, it’s gray. C’mon people! You’re not off to a very good start. How about my favorite letter? Nobody? (Hint: It’s the same as my favorite number, and favorite shape.) Circle, O, Zero? No one knew that one? Sheesh, I thought that’d be a gimme.
Maybe you’re just not good at favorites. That’s fine. So, what about this one: Three people have quit at my office over the last year. Question – was I one of them? Take your time. Alright, time’s up. Duh. I’m still working here. How could I have quit? Well … uh … actually, January had a little incident, that I forgot to mention. You see, Susan and I had planned on going on a ski trip—which I had announced weeks in advance (I’m very responsible)—and at the last minute my boss told me I needed to stay because of a big fat dumb project that had just come up. Well, that is what is classically known as an impasse. And impasses tend to get in my way, and I don’t like yielding to them, but that just creates another impasse. So before this snowballed into a monster impasse extraordinaire, I decided to try something. I quit, and said that I would reapply for my job when I got back. I even wrote up a letter of resignation. It went something like this: “To Irma, See ya beans! Affectionately, Reputation@Stake.” Or something close to that. And there were surprisingly few applicants for the position when I got back.
But that reminds me of the next quiz question. What is the first name of my boss? Oh, wait. Don’t read the above paragraph yet. Okay, now answer it. Oh, never mind, forget it. And, no, why she prefers for us to call her by her first name rather than “Your Highness”, is not a quiz question. (By the way, if I had her power I would totally make people do that.) But back to the quiz. And this one is multiple choice. What is my greatest fear? Snakes, spiders, or a blood-thirsty serial killer wandering through my house at night with an axe, after having just cut the power and phone lines? What?! Spiders? What is it with you people and spiders? No, it’s the murderer. Spiders are like the size of a nickel, and they can’t even pick up axes. What’s so scary about that?
You guys aren’t doing nearly as well as I assumed you would, so here’s the last question. Can “The Stupid Bet” be found anywhere other than “thestupidbet.wordpress.com”? Ah, tricky one huh? In fact yes. It can now be found at simply “thestupidbet.com”. It might even be moving there permanently pretty soon, too. Huh? No, don’t worry, I’ll let you know before I discontinue it here. What? You want one more? Okay. Bonus question: How many fingers am I holding up? (Hint: I’m not giving you one.) But I will give you five guesses.
Reputation@Stake
Apparently I have the worst short term memory of anyone. I got to “don’t read the above paragraph” which was funny, but also made me realize I’d already forgotten the name a few sentences back.
Well, I guess it turned out to be a good quiz question after all. And now I know that I only have to write one paragraph from now on, and then just repeat it over and over until I have a full post. And you’ll never know the difference. Cool!
That’s slightly exaggerating don’t you think? I mean I, uh… that is… What was this about again?
I have no idea.
Irma, and my favorite color is gray too. (Only sometimes I spell it with an e to liven things up.) What do I win?
Ha! I almost mentioned that I spell grey like that too. But not so much to liven things up. The E is easier to press on my keyboard than the A.
And what you win is … a free subscription to my blog! I’ll also throw in a t-shirt and mug. I’ll even let you pick them out yourself (and let you pay for them) so enjoy. Congratulations!