I think I take memes too seriously. I start a lot more of them than I ever finish and post, because I always run into some question that I either don’t know how to answer or for which I can’t think of an answer, so I wind up deleting the entire meme. For example, one of the current meme-trends I’ve seen is a “Have you ever...” and then a lot of things are listed like:

• laughed and had milk/coke come out of your nose (yes)
• pushed all the buttons on an elevator (yes - pretty recently)
• made out in an elevator (no)
• been skydiving (no)
• broken a bone (yes)
• skipped school (yes)

Those are fine, not difficult to answer at all, but then I run across things like “kissed a member of the same sex” and I can't decide how to answer because yes, I have: my grandmothers, my mom, my Aunt Betty - but I don’t think that’s what the question is getting at. I think it means kissed in a sexual way, probably with tongue, in which case the answer would be “no” - but then again, the question doesn’t specify so if I answer it as asked the answer would be “yes” but then I think that people will read it as sensual kissing so it gives an impression of me that’s totally incorrect so...(back and forth I go).

“Stole something from your job” was another one that threw me. No, I haven’t embezzled funds or absconded with The Boss’s nifty new laptop and I don’t even steal company pens, but yes, I've used company property to make personal copies or send personal faxes. Which is still stealing, albeit petty, but then again I usually ask The Boss and get his okay, so it’s not really, but then I occasionally do personal things on company time, which is sorta stealing (time/salary), but I don’t think that’s what the question meant, although fundamentally...

I had nearly completed Nancy’s most recent meme when I ran across “worst habit”. I simply couldn’t think of anything to put for that one. Not that I don’t have personality defects or character flaws - I do, lots of them, and those are easy to list, but a character flaw is not the same as a ‘habit’. Worst habit? I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke and, while I do drink, I don’t consider that a bad habit because I don’t get sloppy drunk, drag into work hungover, spend the mortgage money on Scotch, etc. I have a bad temper, but that’s a personality trait, not a habit. I say condescending, snotty things to irretrievably stupid people, but that’s technically more of a ‘reflex’. Hmm...maybe my worst habit is starting but never finishing memes. I still don’t know what to put about kissing girls or stealing from work, though.

MONTOYA DELENDA EST!