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Sunday Seven #351

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Last Updated on October 11, 2012

With this week’s edition, the Sunday Seven is going to take a new direction. It’ll still be a weekly feature that will list seven things, and you’re still invited to play along by coming up with your own list.

But based on the past few months’ worth of posts, and specifically on the actual involvement from those posts — yes, I mean comment counts — it came down to making a decision: either changing how it’s posted each week or scrapping it altogether.

For a three week stretch last month, no one left a comment. Despite this fact, it still draws a good number of people here week after week, which leads me to believe that people are playing and not leaving a comment or just reading and not playing.

I’m fine with both scenarios, really, because in either case, they’re coming here to read these Sunday posts.

At the same time, if I’m posting something no one is responding to, sooner or later I need to begin wondering if there’s a different way to accomplish the same thing that might get people to chime in.

So starting this week, I’m going to give you my list for a specific topic. I might revisit some old topics eventually and provide my answers to previous editions that I didn’t answer. But this week, I’m starting with a new topic.

So let’s begin!

I found a list of 20 Things We Are All Guilty Of Doing. Like some lists, there are a few questionable items, but there are certainly enough for me to come up with seven of them.

7 Quirky Things I’m Guilty Of Doing

1. Trying to Plug in USB jacks the wrong way.

And yes, I do it nearly every time. Only recently have I noticed that the “right side up” usually has some kind of insignia printed on it. That has helped…unless the plug is arranged vertically instead of horizontally.

2. Thinking 1990 was 10 years ago.

The 1970s seem like a long time ago. The 1980s seem like a fairly long time ago. But once you hit the 1990s, that doesn’t seem that long ago to me. And the 2000s? A couple of years ago, right?

3. Forgetting the names of everyone you just met immediately.

I try my best to repeat someone’s name in my head a few times as I’m shaking hands. Otherwise, there’s almost no hope of it sticking. Faces, though, I have no trouble remembering.

4. Throwing away food packaging only to have to retrieve it to check the instructions.

Maybe it’s too much excitement over the thought of eating the food that I occasionally forget to remember to see what’s required to actually cook it.

5. Sleeping with a blanket regardless of temperature.

Yes. That’s me. I sleep with a fan on, as well. Maybe it doesn’t make sense, but it’s a lot more comfortable that way. It gives me an option: if I’m too hot, I can always ditch the blanket; if I’m too cold, there’s always another blanket.

6. Despite being an adult with years of school under your belt, needing to recite the whole alphabet every time to find a letter.

In fairness, I don’t have to recite the entire alphabet, but I’ll pick up at a certain point in the “alphabet song,” like “LMNOP,” for instance, if I’m mentally sorting where Q falls, for example.

7. Having fictional arguments in my head.

It’s not always arguments; sometimes, it’s just simple conversations I try to play out in my head, trying to anticipate which direction an important discussion will go. You know what they say: prepare for the worst, hope for the best!

Okay, friends: I’ve shared. Can you come up with seven? Or, do you do any of these yourself?

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Patrick is a Christian with more than 30 years experience in professional writing, producing and marketing. His professional background also includes social media, reporting for broadcast television and the web, directing, videography and photography. He enjoys getting to know people over coffee and spending time with his dog.

8 Comments

  • 1. Saying “what” only to realize a second later you understood the person.  (Sometimes it seems to take a while to comprehend what was said)
    2. Throwing away the package of food, only to have to dig it out of the garbage seconds later to check the directions.
    3. Making a mistake while typing a password and deleting everything instead of just using backspace.
    4. Always stopping the microwave with one second left.
    5. Sleeping with a blanket regardless of temperature
    6. Having fictional arguments in your head
    7. Spelling “Wednesday” “Wed-Nes-Day” (Yeah.  I sound it out this way in my head so I spell it right)

  • 1. Saying “what” only to realize a second later you understood the person.  (Sometimes it seems to take a while to comprehend what was said)
    2. Throwing away the package of food, only to have to dig it out of the garbage seconds later to check the directions.
    3. Making a mistake while typing a password and deleting everything instead of just using backspace.
    4. Always stopping the microwave with one second left.
    5. Sleeping with a blanket regardless of temperature
    6. Having fictional arguments in your head
    7. Spelling “Wednesday” “Wed-Nes-Day” (Yeah.  I sound it out this way in my head so I spell it right)

  • I’ve done this one and several from the past month or so while I’ve been in Witness Protection and unable to post. (not really, of course)
    The USB thing–I look at the plug-end first. And yeah, there are marks to help. But I probably ONLY know that because I’m OCD. 😉
    Have a great week! 

    • Yeesh: my answers are here: http://sweetmemes.blogspot.com/2012/07/patricks-place-playing-catch-up.html smh

    • Yeesh: my answers are here: http://sweetmemes.blogspot.com/2012/07/patricks-place-playing-catch-up.html smh

  • 1. Throwing away the package of food, only to have to dig it out of the garbage seconds later to check the directions
    2. Wiping your cellphone screen so all the smudges go in the same direction (Glad I am not the only one doing this)
    3. Always stopping the microwave with one second left (Because I don’t want it to do that noisy, loud beeping thing)
    4. Having fictional arguments in your head
    5. Plugging the USB in the wrong way (I never seem to get it right on the first go)
    6. Cleaning your hands with the condensation from a glass of water
    7. Hating books with movie poster covers

  • Ok, here is my list from the link.
     
    6. Forgeting the names of everyone you just met immediately:
    I’m like you in that I try hard to mentally use the person’s name a time or two when we meet.  It usually doesn’t work.  More often than not, I have to get a friend to ‘introduce themselves’ to someone who’s name I have forgotten to save face.
     
    10. Wiping your cellphone screen so all the smudges go in the same direction:
    I’ve done this, but usually take the time to make sure they all go away.  It’s pointless I know, but I am all for clean glass.
     
    11. Making a mistake while typing a password and deleting everything instead of just using backspace:
    Every single time.  I’m usually typing so fast that it’s hard to know where the mistake happened.
     
    12. Wondering how many photos of random people have you in the background:
    I never did before, but now that the idea is in my head…I do wonder.  All I hope is that I’m not in any of them with my hand down my pants like that girl in the example pic.  Good grief Charlie Brown.
     
    18. Sleeping with a blanket regardless of temperature:
    I’m a huge fan of keeping the room I am sleeping in as cold as possible and being under a blanket.  I just sleep better that way.
     
    19. Having fictional arguments in your head:
    I don’t exactly do this with arguments, but I do ‘role play’ conversations and try to anticipate any objections or issues that may arise.  Given how so many people ramble, I wish more people did this.
     
    20. And plugging this in wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME:
    I don’t EVER plug USB cables in the wrong way.  I do, however, visually check them EVERY SINGLE TIME before I try.

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