Generate a list of things you have lost.
Things I have lost:
1. Car keys: to an Olds 88 my junior year in college, with a The Doors keychain.
2. Half an eyelid: in a JV basketball game against the Belfield Bantams.
3. A tan corduroy jacket from The Gap: at a Ground Round in Minot, ND.
4. One white flip-flop: after moving from North Dakota, to Wisconsin, back to North Dakota, and finally, to South Dakota.
5. A black thermal shirt purchased in Saskatoon: taken from dorm washer on the 4th floor of Cook Hall.
6. Self-respect: most notably lost to a guy named Mitch three weeks into college.
7. Homecoming Queen 1998: got to be a "princess" and photographed for the yearbook.
8. The ability to run up and down a basketball court for 50 minutes.
9. My heart: but I think it's in careful hands.
10. A diseased appendix: taken out after 2 months of no health insurance in Madison, WI.
11. The love of my high school years: to a shorter and smaller girl.
12. My first love: to a man.
13. The trailer house I grew up in: don't know where it went, but somebody bought it.
14. My temper: over and over again.
15. My appetite for white pasta sauces: after my first girlfriend told me what it reminded her of.
16. Most of my double chin.
17. Unruly eyebrows: first waxed in 1999.
18. My brother-in-law's favorite hooded sweatshirt: somewhere in the Midwest.
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3 comments:
love this. AND whatevs to the homecoming queen...everyone knows it's the princess everyone thinks is cute!
I lost my self-respect to a guy named Austin three weeks into college.
Whoa.
This is why we are friends; because we have so much in common.
You forgot your mind. You forgot your mind!
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