I know I was surprised when I discovered that everything was made up for shrift instead of me.

Couldn't have happened for a nicer girl, though.

When I was a kid I always wondered if people really saw the same colors as everyone else. (I've mentioned that here before). I didn't think there was any way to prove that the color we call red looks the same to everyone else. But the colors were consistent, so if you have a bowl of cranberries, a stop sign, and a red ball then every person will see the colors not as uniform but with the variations (darker, lighter, etc) but some people see the color as purple or blue or whatever. When names of colors were being made the people picking the names looked at the same thing and said "that's red!" and they all agreed the thing is red even though everyone saw it differently.

Back when I was a stripper, I worked on Thanksgiving one year. Talk about sad, the guys who come into a strip club on Thanksgiving day are the saddest bunch of losers and dicks you would ever want to meet.

When I was about five or so, I asked my mom about the control thingie in the fridge. She explained that it controlled the temperature. I somehow thought she meant the temperature outside, for the whole world. I thought that was cool but I was confused about how that could work.

When I was a kid, I wondered if my whole reality (parents, siblings, fellow students) was all part of some elaborate scientific experiment on me.

Hmmm...when I was a kid, I wondered if my life was a dream, and that soon I'd wake up and it would be the real first day of kindergarten.

Maybe something in the water in that part of the country?

the saddest bunch of losers and dicks you would ever want to meet

Was the place open on Christmas too?

It's funny -- as someone to whom Thanksgiving means nothing (it used to bother me, but I'm over that now) reading all this is very interesting. I mean, I get Independence Day, since we have one, but the import of Turkey Day still escapes me.

I know I was surprised when I discovered that everything was made up for shrift instead of me.

So it is all about me? Huh. Didn't see that one coming.

You people are all nuts. Except askye, because I still don't believe that everyone sees colors the same way. How could we know??

I have like two more paragraphs of analysis and recommendations to write. I can do it, I can do it.

there is no way to know about the color thing! drives me nuts.

but the import of Turkey Day still escapes me.

Off the top of my head, I can't think why it is so importatnt... but it is. Maybe because it's so ingrained into our culture that this is the day you do food stuff with the family?