Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I've mentioned this before, but I once failed a sobriety test (the kind where they make you walk a line, etc.) while completely sober.
I'm not quite that bad (although I've never actually tested it ...) but the sidewalks in town here are primarily old brick or cobblestone, and I have to watch my feet constantly to avoid falling on my face.
Happy Birthday Emmett!
Theresa and tommy must be my siblings! I cannot balance either! I actually have this weird habit of tapping the front of the stair with my foot as I go down if I cannot look at my feet. In college, my BFF asked me why I always walked with my head down, like I was worried, and I told her no-- I am looking at my feet!
Fire ants, msbelle? Those are the only critters I will go ahead and poison. Hate. We used to get some kind of powdery stuff to sprinkle around the nests to wipe them out. Sadly, another nest would eventually crop up somewhere else.
My allergy to fire ants is why I ended up serving in Moldova instead of Francophone Africa.
I actually have this weird habit of tapping the front of the stair with my foot as I go down if I cannot look at my feet.
I do that sometimes too.
OK, people who have a bad sense of balance - do you suffer from motion sickness more than most people too? I do - I wonder if they're related.
Oof. Just posted this in the comments to a friend's status complaining about his neighbors filing a formal complaint against him instead of knocking and asking him to turn it down.
Is it possible their attempts to do this might have gone unheard? Last year I had to call the cops on my downstairs neighbor at 1 am because the music and yelling was too loud for anyone to hear me pounding on the door like a bongo drum.
Oh Cash, how awful for your friend.
do you suffer from motion sickness more than most people
The upside is never having to yell shot gun cause no one is going to argue that you should ride where you can see.
Yes, I too, always ride in the front!
Balance is a skill which can be improved with practice. When I started skating, my coach gave me a piece of 2x4 and I had to put it flat on the floor and stand on it on one foot, so I was a couple of inches off the floor. I was supposed to do this for 5 or 10 minutes at a time. First, I just had to stand, but then as the weeks went on, I had to start holding my other leg up or closing my eyes or reaching overhead.
I really sucked at first but definitely got better as time went on.