This is week ninety-two in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”
There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.
Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.
This week’s questions:
If you had to identify the worst hotel room you have ever stayed in, where was it?
I feel like in my past there was a hotel room that had bugs and was terrifying to sleep in because I was sure I would get eaten alive overnight. But for some reason, at this moment, I can’t place when and where it was. Apparently I blocked it out completely. Which is probably for the better. So I’m going to pick a hotel my mother and I stayed in during a trip to South Dakota once. It was a tiny, rundown place in the middle of nowhere. Very Bates Motel-ish. And the smoke detector went off right over my head in the middle of the night for no reason and it took about a half hour for someone to come and help shut it off. The oddest part of that story… I slept through that entire thing.
If you had to name the most important invention in history, what would win?
Aside from the Internet, because Lord knows I’m addicted to being constantly tethered to that information super highway at all times. I suppose the cliche answer is the wheel. And if I’m anything, I’m a cliche!
If you had to describe the best kiss you’ve ever had, how would you describe it?
I’m glad the question didn’t ask to specify which kiss it was. I would describe it as… remarkably unremarkable. There was nothing all that unique or special about it. But it was perfect in its simplicity.
If your house were to be haunted by the ghost of one person from history, who would you wish it to be?
Judy Garland. And she would sing me to sleep!
Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?
1: It was in 2007 on the coast of North Carolina. The hotel was very expensive, air-conditioner didn’t work, the door had about 2 inches or so of between it and the threshold, and it was the only hotel that had a vacancy. No 24 hour desk. Swapped hot and cold taps. It just wasn’t good.
2: The internal combustion engine. It is largely responsible for our standard of living.
3: Never been kissed!
4: Can I refuse? I like my privacy.
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