Writer's Block: Say What?
March 6th, 2012 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunadelcorvoLJ's Writer's block: What's the weirdest question you've ever been asked?"
"Is it true you sacrifice goats?"
No lie, seriously. In high school somehow people got the idea I was some kind of devil worshipper. (Honestly, one little game of assassin, and people jump to all kinds of conclusions!) It was amusing at first, but it got old fast. So eventually some little bimbo (you know, poofy, floofy, squealing type) caught me on a rather bad day, so I glared at her and snarled "Only when I can't find a VIRGIN!!" She literally did a 'Home Alone' and ran away as fast as her pooky little pink sneakers would carry her. That may have been my first, genuine, audible, leave-a-red-mark facepalm. Sure, it's funny now, but the principal was not amused (though he totally understood my frustration...). On the upside, they left me alone after that....
"Is it true you sacrifice goats?"
No lie, seriously. In high school somehow people got the idea I was some kind of devil worshipper. (Honestly, one little game of assassin, and people jump to all kinds of conclusions!) It was amusing at first, but it got old fast. So eventually some little bimbo (you know, poofy, floofy, squealing type) caught me on a rather bad day, so I glared at her and snarled "Only when I can't find a VIRGIN!!" She literally did a 'Home Alone' and ran away as fast as her pooky little pink sneakers would carry her. That may have been my first, genuine, audible, leave-a-red-mark facepalm. Sure, it's funny now, but the principal was not amused (though he totally understood my frustration...). On the upside, they left me alone after that....
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Date: March 7th, 2012 05:04 am (UTC)I'll bet that girl tried to get rid of her virginity quickly after that. :O
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Date: March 7th, 2012 06:41 am (UTC)I had someone in junior high ask me if it was true that I thought I could stop time. I had mentioned a binding spell to keep someone from harming you where you wrote their name on paper and put it in an ice cube tray and froze it, and through some bizarre game of Fundie Telephone I became Zack Morris, snapping my fingers to freeze time to address the audience. Or something. I don't know.
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Date: March 11th, 2012 12:32 am (UTC)(But damn, that would be a cool power to have!)
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Date: March 7th, 2012 08:15 am (UTC)There are still people who think I would usually wear a little plain black or grey dress with a lace collar and a wide awake hat.
Quakers stopped doing that some time around the mid 19th century.......
That said, using 'plainspeak' (the old fashioned second person singular- thee, thou and so on) when you get religious types at the doorstep can be innocently amusing!
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Date: March 7th, 2012 12:26 pm (UTC)Too much....
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Date: March 8th, 2012 07:29 am (UTC)*stifles*
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Date: March 11th, 2012 11:18 am (UTC)Ask the sci fi novelist and university lecturer, Farah Mendelssohn or the poet, Harvey Gilman (both of whom I know in what we laughingly call 'the real world') was my response :o)