Suspicious Minds (not original I know, but I'm tired and ill - cough, cough)
I have been tagged by my good friend Nina to participate in a suspiciously different meme. She got tagged by Drowning Pisces, which was interesting to me because I am also a pisces. You know, the zodiac is just not getting the respect and play it used to. I mentioned something about a sign, or my sign, or something, to the kids I teach and most of them had no idea what I was talking about. Well, that is often the case, but this one surprised me.
I am supposed to write a list of things that make me suspicious. On a day to day basis in real life I am not a suspicious person, or even a suspicious acting one. I pretty much just go along taking everyone at their word and everything at face value. Mostly I won't think to be suspicious until way later (sometimes too late, but mostly it works out okay for me). Like right now I just realized I recently did something that some people I know would think odd (read not wise- only because I don't want to call myself stupid- yet). I found a piano to buy on craigslist. It is located in a city relatively near my small town. Last Saturday (while in the very beginning stages of my current illness) I drove with my son in to check it out. I thought nothing of following the pleasant young man down the siedwalk, into his apartment and into his bedroom to see the piano. Seriously. I never thought of anything other than seeing the piano. And this evening I drug my drugged and coughing body out of bed and back into town to give him $300. I will pick up the piano on Saturday. The only reason I think to mention this is because on a bulletin board I post to one of the members today mentioned that she doesn't like craigslist. She doesn't like the thought of people coming to her home. Ooops. I've invited people from other countries that I barely know to come stay with me.
With that background I will be able to show you how truely dichotomous I am.
On to the meme.
I am suspicious of people who are nice to everyone all the time. Do they really like everyone that much? Do they like me or are they just being nice because they are nice to everyone?
I am suspicious of 7th graders talking quietly and then asking to go to the bathroom.
I am suspicious of parents who believe everything their kids tell them about how they got their grade and then e-mail me with strange accusations.
Letters to the editor when they are in the paper in our town make me suspicious. But you would have to live here to understand that. Did that guy who wrote in last week think we were too stupid to figure out that he was married to the woman he was writing about, just because they have different last names?
Like Nina, I am suspicious of the first item on the shelf and will reach behind it to get the next, most of the time. This is especially true with milk.
There is something deeply suspicious about any credit card company that would want to give me credit and spends money sending me offers.
I am suspicious of anyone on any plane with a really short haircut sitting next to me looking suspiciously like Timothy McVeigh. I just found this out about myself last summer when we were at the gate waiting for the sniffing German Shepherd to be brought on board.
I am suspicious of people who pray loudly on street corners or even people who pray too loudly or too long and want to pray for me using phrases like "Please lift my friend up on wings of Eagles, Lord."
I sometimes become suspicious of my online friends if the board becomes very active on a day when I am not able to log on. Are they extra talkative since I am not there? Are they using the opportunity to rejoice that I am not in the way? Maybe they avoid the board when they see I am there?
And, ya know, that whole NCLB thing and WHOEVER thought that up makes me very suspicious!
I'll try to think of someone to tag and get back on that. But I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't.
