Life in 2D/3D

Badaunt has tricked me into given me the wonderful opportunity to take part in her 5 question interviews, so i'm posting my answers here. I thought about making the longest comment post in tblog history, but decided against it.

1. What do you remember as your finest moment, and why?
What I remember as being my finest moment is the day I finally walked again after being bedridden for 3 months. I’d been in hospital because I had glandular fever and it affected my inner ear somehow, making me so dizzy that I couldn’t move an inch without being sick (definitely not a feeling I’m fond of). For 3 months I couldn’t do anything – I couldn’t read, hold a conversation, watch tv – nothing to keep me amused, I just had to lie there with my head spinning. It took an incredible amount of will power to get up out of bed and try to walk again. I know it doesn’t really seem like much, but it was a huge event in my life and took me a long long time to recover from, so it’s the event that stands out most to me.

2. The phone rings. You answer it. Someone says, "Remember me?" Who is it?
That will be the newest sales rep, calling me on the office phone from upstairs to ask me some inane, ridiculous question about playground design, like “if you design a playground with one deck, do you need a way to get up onto the deck?”
This is the same woman who asks “Hi! How are you today” every single time she walks past me – on average about 20ish times a day. Even a response of “Same as when you asked me 5 minutes ago” doesn’t deter her. I suspect she is completely crazy.

3. What was your greatest fear when you were 10(ish)?
 I tried to think of what scared me when I was 10, and couldn’t come up with anything. I even rang my mother and asked her if there was anything I was afraid of, and she couldn’t think of anything either – and mothers always know these things. I was kind of a weird little kid, I don’t remember ever really being afraid of anything at all. The only thing I can remember is being really frightened when I noticed a huntsman spider crawling up my arm. I suspect that that’s not just a little kid type fear though.

4. Somebody said something to you once that you think is absolutely not true... but sometimes you secretly wonder. What was it?

Someone once told me that if you sneeze hard enough, you can die (bursting a blood vessel in your brain or something), and I thought that sounded silly, but it’s always been one of those things that i was never quite sure about….

5. What was your biggest ever fashion mistake?
well there have been a few, but the one that stands out most in my memory was from back when I was quite young - the transition from being dressed by my mother to being allowed to choose my own clothes. I’ll never forget it – going to a birthday party looking like I was going to a fashion show, all the other little girls wearing jeans and tshirts while I was wearing this hideous hot pink floral dress made of some terrible shiny synthetic satiny material (this was back in the 80’s). I think it was something that my grandmother had sewn for me, and my mother had me wearing this horrible dress with frilly white socks and awful white heels, with my hair swept into a ponytail on the side of my head. I’m pretty sure this sort of thing is why I hate everything to do with the 80’s now. I still have nightmares about it.

6. (bonus question) Skinny fries? Are you out of your mind?

What can I say? I walk on the wild side!

Have you ever had that strange feeling of being in the middle of a conversation with someone, and they drop in a reference to an event/object/person that you have no idea about? Where they speak about this thing as though it's common knowledge (and you suspect that it probably is common knowledge) but you have no idea what they're on about? And then, of course, you can't ask for fear of looking stupid/un-informed/weird.

I get this feeling a lot.

So i've decided to out myself. I am here to say that I don't know things. I don't watch the news very often, and i spent every history/geography lesson i've ever had at school doing anything that wasn't history/geography.

I'm probably the only person in the world who doesn't know which is which when people talk about left & right wing politics.
For the longest time i had no idea what wasabi was, even though i was asked every day at lunch if i wanted some with my sushi
I'm probably the only person in Australia who doesn't know what happened at Pearl Harbour (besides it being something war-like)
I am also probably the only person in the world who has no idea what a bolero is. Actually, wait - i'm pretty sure that has a lot of people stumped.

There are a thousand things like this that i am compeltely and utterly unaware of. So i'm here to out myself as an un-knowing person.

What will shock you even more is that i don't know these things because i'm not interested. That's right, i have no interest in boleros or war! I have negative interest in history and politics. Especially politics. I have no interest in the difference between the labor and liberal parties. I have no interest at all - i just want someone who will do a good job of it, reagrdles off this left/right wing business and all of that stuff. If i had it my way, the PM would be chosen after extensive personality tests rather than by a bunch of promises that everyone knows full well aren't going to be kept once the election is won.

And i don't care what a bolero is. At all. There may come a time in my life when i purchase a bolero (in fact, i suspect i may already unwittingly own one) but come that time, i'm happy to call it "this thingy here". I am, however, glad that i now know what wasabi is.

I'm not sure that asking people abaout things that you have no idea about is really the best option anyway. I think that sometimes, ignorance is bliss. My best example is from when my sister was in grade 5 and they had to find out the meaning of a word they hadn't heard before. She chose the word 'Jock-strap'.
'nuff said.

What i would like to know is whether all you bloggers out there are in the same boat, and have been nodding and smiling at things for years with no idea what's going on. Are there things that you have no idea about, or am i alone here in my cluelessness?