15. Secret Shakespeare
I’m a produced playwright. Among other things, I spent several years working on a full-length poetic prose stage adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. A lot of people shook my hand afterwards, telling me that they cried, that it was the best show they’d seen in years, that it was amazing.
It’s something I very rarely talk about with the people I interact with day-to-day. They don’t even know I like theatre.
16. I always wanted to learn the slide rule
One time in college I forgot my TI-89, and I had to index an x-ray diffraction pattern with a slide rule on a timed exam. I succeeded and got an A- on the exam. But nobody cared, and all of my friends just think I’m weird if I tell them I know how to use a slide rule.
17. To be real, this sounds like the farmer’s accomplishment, not yours
I once picked the absolute best package of strawberries the world has ever tasted. I’ve had organic strawberries, I’ve been to strawberry farms and picked them myself, I’ve had home grown berries, I’ve had them all.
But this one time, I went to the grocery store, saw a particularly promising box. I raised the carton to my nose and smelled it and it was so perfectly sweet that I knew I must have this carton. They called to me with their fragrance, promising a beautiful mouth orgasm.
And did they ever deliver. They were perfectly sweet and tart and I didn’t even need to eat them with sugar or cream. They were perfect on their own.
I have never had strawberries like this again. Not even close. Each time I get strawberries now, I’m just left with disappointment.
18. “Love will find you”
It is how I met the most amazing woman.
I was designated driver, owed it to my friends to take them out and didn’t want to be there. One of my friends started talking to a girl and because I had nothing else to do I chatted to her friend. I stood no chance as she was way out of my league. She could have been a model but preferred to study. I was relaxed and we just talked. Someone jokingly said, you two are going to marry. Everyone laughed.
By chance I called her the next day. I had nothing to lose. She had just had a minor fender bender some hours before and I simply asked if she was ok? She said some time later that she took an interest in me simply because I was the first person to ask how she was.
We have been together for decades. I still pinch myself as to how this ever happened. It was just meant to be.
Love will find you. Get out there and make friends. The rest just happens.
19. Again, don’t know what that is, but good on you
I beat a professional hearthstone player, and it was his first loss in the mode he was playing. Unfortunately, I only have a couple friends that play.
20. Filial piety for the win!
I have kind of a corny way of trying to think of myself as a good person (sometimes a struggle, I feel I have done things in the past I can’t atone for properly).
I was set to inherit a moderately large sum of money from a relative to passed and realized through conversation with my parents that their share would not even cover their debts. In fact, due to medical expenses during a mix-up with their insurance they were likely to have to sell their house and radically downsize.
My wife and I don’t have a lot right now — I work part time and am in grad school and she stays at home — and had been daydreaming about paying off bills, having a cushion, buying a house.
Well she very strongly agreed with me that we couldn’t really enjoy that stuff while my aging parents faded into near-poverty. We have no kids, I have great credit, and after graduation have well-paying work lined up. I called my mom and employed my best persuasive skills to get them to agree to accept our share of the money. It was not the easiest thing — they didn’t want to take so much away from their son and it wasn’t exactly fun per se making a spirited debate case in favor of giving away all my money! However, they did agree and the relief and happiness from them was palpable despite their prior stoic front about the situation.
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