HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I hope all of you have a joyful, meaningful, fulfilling 2023.
I promised a bit of a story. If you remember, a while ago, I refused to relate my tale about when we once played Trivial Pursuit. This happened a few years ago: I know it was after my children grew up as it did not involve babysitters at the time, but I have no idea when except it was when we lived in our previous house, and my Friend G and her OH lived three houses down the road from us. TRIVIAL PURSUIT We were once invited over for a light supper, followed by a game of Trivial Pursuit, a game which had not been out for long, and was very popular at the time. We set off to walk the hundred yards from our house and I was somewhat nervous: the other players were all four of them University graduates and held down professional jobs. I left school and did a Secretarial Course, where we learned shorthand, typing, and how to answer the phone, and how to get out of a car without showing our knickers. I wasn't even working at the time, and never earned much anyway. My OH had left school at the age of14 to help on the family farm. As we crossed the road, I boosted my ego by thinking that after all, the game is all about trivial things, not general knowledge as such. I reminded myself that I was perhaps the only person going to be there who knew weird facts, such as one that elephants are the only mammal to have knees just like us humans, and that "Lizzie Borden with an Axe, Gave her Mother 40 whacks!!" Anyway, although I am competitive at such games, I did not mind losing and maybe we would make our friends feel good about beating us! We enjoyed G's delicious food, and then cleared the table and set out the game. We two had never played before. It consists mainly of taking turns to answer various questions and gaining points to progress around the board. We began. I was relieved to hear that the questions are indeed, very varied and random. We did not do too badly, although I was steamingly annoyed with myself for forgetting the name of who wrote "Mrs Dalloway" when I knew it was Virginia Woolf as I had read it recently. Then G asked me "What mammal is the only one with knees besides humans?".... I paused and swallowed. I said nothing about what had happened an hour or two ago, and replied Elephants. Of course, it was just a coincidence. But four or five questions later I got "Who gave their Mother 40 whacks?" This was just mind boggling, as out of all the millions of facts in the world, I was asked that one. I managed to smile as if I wasn't shaken at all, and just said "Lizzie Borden with an Axe, Gave her Mother 40 Whacks, When she saw What she had Done, She gave her father 41" I never told anyone about what happened, and certainly not my OH who would have just shrugged. Oh, and as a nice footnote -- We Won the game!!!
Thank you for posts ! I really enjoy them. Nothing much happening here, I was still +ve for Covid yesterday but feeling much more like myself. Just very tired when doing chores, etc. I expect we'll hear from OG or EE eventually. I will admit to worrying a bit, though.