Life in the Slow Lane

I have been tagged for a meme from Emily . I'm not sure that I've ever responded to a meme before, if I did, it was probably to this same prompt... except, that this one was tailored just for me! Of course I have to oblige. THE (Original) RULES: Look up from the computer, look around the room where you're sitting and pick up the closest book . Open the book, turn to page 123, count down to the fifth sentence on that page, and then post the next three sentences . The Tailored rules: SlowLane (who I hope will complete this at work - and for you - change the rules a bit and use the most interesting request letter you have lying around.) Probably the most interesting letter I handled today was a letter from Bill. Or Sandra. It is the same person, but he/she never could decide whether he was Bill or she was Sandra. I think he/she is generally genderly confused. He/She addressed his/her lengthy letter to “preacher man [name of female]”. I wonder how much shorter the l...

This is the Random Yellow Card Question that makes me wonder what sort of net I have beneath my trapeze .

I'm taking the Random-Yellow-Card-Question Challenge . If you were lost in an unfamiliar city, what would you do? There have been many times that I have been lost in an unfamiliar city. Back when my move to Los Angeles coincided with me learning to drive, I spent hours upon hours being lost. Usually it had something to do with me turning East into the setting sun or getting directions for approaching from the North and then needing to come from the South instead and not flipping all of the turns. But as scary as it may be to be lost in Lost Angeles, I remember being more afraid when I got lost in Brussels. I was tagging along with my friend on a school field trip to a concentration camp ( Breendonk ) and on the way back we stopped to do what everyone wants to do after spending time thinking about man's inhumanity to man: shop. My friend and I had no Belgian currency (before the days of the Euro) nor did we really see anything worth looking at in the closest mall, so we se...