Posts tagged with "pieces of me"

Answering For Others

Aaron and Karen are noto­ri­ous for their inabil­i­ty to end a phone call with­in the first fif­teen min­utes of pick­ing up. This isn’t always their fault, of course, because most of the time it’s the peo­ple at the oth­er end who per­sist in stay­ing on the line. Sometimes I’ll pre­tend that it’s a wrong num­ber when we’re hang­ing out so that they won’t be dis­turbed. Unfortunately, this time, the per­son was per­sis­tent. It end­ed up being a rude char­i­ty work­er.

My Chinese has a ter­ri­ble Western accent, bad enough for me to be able to rec­og­nize it and cringe. Normally, I’m not so bad, but I was def­i­nite­ly rusty and caught off-guard.

Tastes Like Purple

When I’m eat­ing from a bag of can­dy with assort­ed flavours, I always have a favourite. For exam­ple, the red Skittles in the orig­i­nal flavours, or the Creme Eggs in a Cadbury Assorted Bag of mini eggs (which has WAY more of the less favoured Dairy Milk and Caramel Eggs, I sus­pect on pur­pose). The weird thing is that I still enjoy the oth­er flavours just as much. Every time I get one, I see it as an invest­ment towards the end of the bag, when a glo­ri­ous explo­sion of my favourite flavour awaits to tit­il­late my taste­buds.

Shaving Habits

When I shave, I always start in the mid­dle, then shave the left cheek, and fin­ish with the right. It’s not that I can’t devi­ate this, it’s that I choose not to. The chin and lip areas are always very irri­ta­ble, while the sides remain smooth and sat­is­fy­ing.