And so, since it is Three on Thursday, I thought it might be fun to state three things about me and let you decide which one is not true at all.
1. I first learned to knit when I was home with a bad bout of bronchitis in 5th grade. The lady across the street came over with yarn and needles. She cast on, showed me the knit stitch, and a week or so later, I had a very long, very wonky, red "scarf" ready to bind off. However, a few days prior to that, the woman's house burnt down when her clothes dryer stopped tumbling, and as a result, caught fire. I never saw the woman again, nor did I know how to bind off. (The woman and her family were not at home when the fire happened, so they were all fine, btw.)
2. One of my neighborhood friends in elementary school was a girl whose father was a locally well-known mobster, and was regulary having people killed for one reason or another. He was, however, fond of his children, so he was always buying tickets for them and their friends to go to all kinds of cool events. As an adult, I asked my mother if this used to worry her, and she said, no because he had more bodyguards "than God," so she figured I was actually safer than I was normally.
3. I am the child of a couple who were failed religious. My mother left the convent and my father left the priesthood to get married. This was at at time when it was quite scandalous. (Well, except to them, I guess.) It was never a big deal to us, but other people were always shocked when they would find this out.
Hm. Which one of these is not true? Feel free to take a guess, and I'll let you the answer know soon. :-)
13 comments:
I would like it too be the first one. Here's hoping. Happy new year.
Okay... that's tough, but I'll take a wild guess and say the last one is not true
Oh wow.....two of them are true? You've had an interesting life. I have no idea but I do like the one about the mobster. That could be a TV show. I could see HBO picking that up.
How interesting that two of those three things are true. I keep changing my mind about which one is not true. I'm just going to pick the first one. By the way, I love your new header (which I know has been on your blog for a few days).
The knitting one isn't true.
I played two truths and a lie with a group of friends at a birthday party last year--I can't remember laughing so hard for so long in ages!
I'm going to guess the mobster one isn't true. But the knitting start is my second runner-up!
Oh my! I am guessing 2 is not true... but all of these, wow!
I'll go with the third item being the lie, although I do have a friend whose father was a monseigneur when he met a woman who swept him off his feet, and apparently he had to request the pope's permission to leave service.
I'm going with the knitting one being a lie, or at least an incorrect version of the truth. The other two are just too random and unusual to make up. :)
number one but my instinct is number three, but number three I want to be REALLY true :)
I'm guessing number one.
Back in the day, my parents knew people on the fringes who were bad actors. It was an open secret who the gangsters were.
Bridget! This is fun,. .I think the mob story is real. My dad once met a mobster un beknownst to him. IT FREAKED him out later when he learned he had dined with a big mob boss, in his home no less. A friend of my father was a hunting buddy, Joe, and his friend was the big mob man. Such a weird culture
The third one? The image of a little Bridget hanging around with mobsters is too great to have to abandon.
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