For example, I thought my phone wasn't charging this entire weekend. Oh, the battery must be going, time for a new phone. But, no. (Well, it is time for a new phone, but not due to a bad battery.) Instead, when I was in NYC with my folks last week, I was reminded by a banner on the subway about conserving energy that having a charger plugged in when it's not being used still uses energy, so I unplugged mine when I got home. However, I forgot that, so I was plugging one end into my phone, without the other end in anything... wow.
Another, I realize, was from when I was in 3rd grade, but I realize only now I may have gotten what was said entirely wrong. 3rd grade, the cusp of pre-teen life. I was the oldest sibling, so I had no one to look up to or talk to, but a girl in my class, named Jessica, had an older sister- who was in middle school, the epitome of cool. Jessica told all the girls in our 3rd grade class that she had started shaving her arms and legs, because her sister did it. Only now do I look back and wonder if she said arms or "armpits". Or had said arms but assumed everyone knew she meant under arms. Because, after she told us that, and that we should all do it too, I shaved my lower arms, like the tops of them, for several weeks, until my parents noticed and made me stop. I now wonder what my mom thought when she learned I was doing that. I laugh now at the idea of a kid coming up to me and telling me they were shaving their arms... their lower arms. Just me who finds this hilarious? Perhaps. Alas...
X's and O's, peace and love.
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