I took the shrimp from the freezer tonight, prepping for dinner and was hit by a (Venus retro) memory.

 I was 22 years old before I ever had shrimp and I was scared to death of it.  My boyfriend had to reassure me that I would in fact be able to cook it. I was overwhelmed with just the thought of the challenge, thought he was craaaazy having such confidence in me. When I say, from the desert, I mean from the desert!

Does that girl look like she's ever had shrimp? I'd have sooner been to the Moon!

I can cross one eye at a time. left, then right, left, then right...then migraine

I can talk in fully legible sentences with my mouth shut

If I am still I can feel blood moving in my veins

I have a mole that, when I was a child, dried up completely and then fell off before growing back 

The soldier once traded his little brother a shiny nickel for his dull dime. 

he told me this when I asked him how he dealt with stupid people. ;)

I won a Flintstones trivia contest (in the early 1980's pre-WWW days).

I wrote a book of "sideshow freak poems" 4 years before I found out that I had a disease that some sideshow freaks have hahaha. I think that joining the circus would be fun.

uuuuMy husband and I haven't taken a vacation in almost 15 years.

^^^ The cat in my lap changed position and typed those UUUUUs.

lol@jilly

i loved the flinstones! we used to torture our mum with "willlllllllllma! where's my dinner!"

Two of my teeth grew in "switched" in their positions, and since one was the canine, it was very noticeable. That was an orthodontic bill that made my poor Father weep.

 I am significantly uncertain that this is actually very interesting but I was drawing a blank, so  . . . 

My son (a Taurus) stayed in the oven too long, came out with long fingernails, brown like a werewolf - he loves this story.

I was married to a flasher for 23 years. Thing is when I consulted with my family they sided with him cause he was such a 'great guy.' Had an elite position in the military and was damn good looking to top it off. Didn't matter that I could'nt deal with it and turned into someone I wasn't in an attempt to fix him! I went crazy and he seemed to enjoy that side of me cause it fed into his sickness. I finally pulled myself away...with the help a great friends wisdom. And the knowledge that it wasn't me who caused it. Never get married at 17...you are just too young as some on the sight obviously knew when they were 17. 

I love the odd / strange / unusual so I subscribed to this thread haha.

good tip, jilly, thx!

This may qualify as too much information, but what the heck.  I have a birthmark shaped like a thumbprint on the left cheek of my derrierre.  Strange but true.

when i was a kid, I got stuck in a public restroom at a restaurant and started crying cause the door was too heavy to open ( I'm not even kidding.. i wedged my foot between the door and tried my hand at different ways of trying to pry it open but I didn't have enough strength ) and I thought my parents were going to leave without noticing, haha. It's funny because no one was going in and out of the restroom, so I was alone for like 5 minutes panicking.. thats a pretty vivid memory i have. I don't remember how old I was, maybe 6 or 7 ( rough speculation, i really cant remember )... Eventually of course they came and got me, though I was sobbing hysterically by that time.. lol

when i was a kid, had three older brothers. nicknames i hated and the one that never failed to piss me off: "booger". how gross! eyew.

one day when i was about 5 and my brother was 10, he called me a booger. it hit me wrong and i socked him in the stomach, after which he fell to the floor. he never heard the end of that. my parents laughed every time they talked about it for years.

he did quit calling me that afterwards. ha!

Ohhhh mine is beyond belief, or so I've been told.

But I have to say, I have nearly an identical story as Jo. lol  This too is freaky as her chart details seem the same as mine. 

 Okay, so, I thought frozen meat was good forever. I cooked a roast a few years back that had been in the freezer nearly 2 years. It was good. I thought meat was good forever!! But after letting that info slip AFTER we'd eaten, my guests were ready to hurl. lol

uh, it's not?  how long is it good for?  shoot.

I'm allergic to oysters:  my face erupts in these dime-sized, fluid-filled blisters.  I found this out ON A DATE.  then I found out again a few years later (but they looked so gooood, the fried ones!).  this explains a lot.

Meat is good for a very long time in a deep freeze.  In an upright freezer there is a chance of partial thawing so six months is considered safe I think.  Even then barring power failure or prolonged door openings most things would be fine.  Freezer burn is the greatest risk. 

Lupa the know it all.  :)

I have double jointed shoulder blades that spread out like wings (I can stick a can between them and hold it there). Most people think it's gross/strange/freaky. I like them, plus they scared away a bully when I was younger, so they have advantages. :)

whew, thanks Lupa!

The one thing that most often makes people look at me like I'm an alien is my telling them I can't swim at all.

What? I grew up in a tiny, landlocked north Louisiana town with one community pool.  It was just never an issue.

I never learned to drive until I was 23 years old.  I just never wanted to learn, even though all my friends were wild to get their licenses as soon as they turned 16.  Just wasn't an issue with me.  Weird.  I also stopped wearing my glasses when I was a teenager, never bothered to get contacts, and just went around in this blurred fog from being nearsighted and didn't care about wrinkles from squinting.

So, whenever I went somewhere in a car, someone else was always driving and to this day I get lost wherever I go even in the area where I grew up and have lived most of my life, I just never paid attention to where I was going because someone else always did that and I didn't have to - this situation is made worse because I have no sense of direction either.  It's become a joke with friends and family that they have to write very clear directions for me:  turn right at such and such corner, turn left at this one.  Never give me directional directions like "then turn south at . . ." because I will have no idea where 'south' is.

I learned to drive when I got married, my new husband taught me.  Then I proceeded to drive all over without a license for 14 years.  Was living in another state and got pulled over in front of my children's school for an illegal left turn, got a ticket we couldn't afford to pay, so I went and got my license and the judge tore up the ticket.  Boy was I glad!

So there you have it, the embarassing truth about me is that I never knew where I was going, always let someone else take me there, and acted like I didn't care whether I could see the way ahead or not.  Fortunately, that is no longer the case - I mean, I still get lost all the time, but now I make all the decisions about it!  And I wear my glasses!

This has made my day - I love the weird!

My nostrils are wonky.  My sisters used to call me 'carrot and pea' allegedly describing the shape of each one.  Great - at least I didn't suck my thumb, asses! I once stuck a frozen pea up one nostril as I was six, bored and my mother was out.  My older sister had me in a headlock trying to get it out.  Eventually I fended her off and sneezed - whew that was a mean green shooter!  I also swallowed a 20 pfenig piece - again just as an experiment...I had to go to hospital.

swallowed what, Bella?  Never heard of that.

 OK here is mine.  Due to extremely uneven performance, I almost was not allowed to graduate highschool and we only found out the day before the graduation ceremony that they were pushing me thru and I would be allowed to graduate "for the best interest of everyone concerned." Also, I was expelled from highschool twice and had to visit the superintendent of schools with my parents to be let back in.

Then, when I got into univ. (solely based on test scores, not grades obviously) I ended up getting a grand total of SEVENTEEN "W"s on my first years transcripts, along with a D or two, and at least one F that I remember. (I would attend the first one or two sessions of the semester, then disappear entirely poof, never to be seen again).

In addition, I do not remember anything whatsoever about my life between the years of age 17 and age 22 ('68 to '74, those were the days). It's a complete blank, like I was in a coma, and I have insulted quite a few of my "friends" from these years by virtue of the fact that, when they say hi, I never heard of them.

Then it all turned around on a dime as life sometimes does with ruler Jupiter conjunct Uranus 1 deg., and I ended up with a BA, MSW, a direct commission to be an officer in the USAF, a Ph.D., and graduate faculty positions in 4 different universities. SHOCK!

Parents...never lose hope!

Kashmiri, that is a pretty good talent you told us about up there. Have you ever thought of getting one of those puppets :-)

Loonsounds - it was the smaller denomination of the deutschemark before the boring euro.  Probably spelled it wrong.  Great story of yours.  I have dropped out of uni more times than I care to mention with Saturn in 9th house but now I'm finishing my degree because Saturn is transiting my venus and sun!  I will keep you in mind when I lose inspiration!

Bella-- your nose story reminded me of one of my own that I had totally forgotten:

my mother fed me `1/2 a grapefruit every day for a week after getting a box of them for xmas.  every day I put the seeds in my nose, until my nose was full and my mother noticed.  some of them were so deep the doctor had to remove them with forceps.  nice. 

'every day I put the seeds in my nose, until my nose was full'

That is the kind of logic I can relate to - I mean, jeez, where else would they go?!

Had to stop to laugh out loud for quite a while after reading that!

Satori:

I laughed 'till the tears came - 'every day I put one in my nose until it was full'

Still laughing . . . that was a good one!

Also thanks Loons, I still have hope for my boys after reading your story!  I still have hope for ME, as far as that goes.

Happy St. Paddy's everyone from O'Peppermint.

If I stick my right index finger in my left ear it feels like I have a feather in my throat which causes me to cough and my eyes to water.(waves freak flag)

ha ha you guys are funnnny

loons your comment reminded me of how proud i was to get my highschool graduation transcript and i missed almost 400 classes and still made it out, by the skin of my teeth.

I'm a closet normal. 

Well, this isn't about me....it's about my husband..he was born on March 24th 1953 at 10:15am in Perth, UK.. at the exact moment that Queen Mary of England died in London. We went to the famous waxworks, Madame Tussaud's in London one time and there was Queen Mary's wax replica.. the resemblance was spooky.. I have a photo I took to prove it.. he has Pluto in Leo on his IC...a touch of the imperious about him for sure!

Spelling Bee Champion.  I still have a leaf collection book I made in grade school.

I have wrestled in mud.  Not in a bathing suit either.

I am double jointed and I didn't even know it until I was in my 20's!

1.  I have a small birthmark on my neck that its shaped like a heart!  Its weird because you can only see it when i am in the sun - the heart gets a little bit darker  

 2. I have  been to England(Brighton,London,Manchester,Whitby, up to Scotland)      France,     Italy(Roma,Florence,Venice)  ,  Greece( Athens,Thesaloniki, Sparti, Chalkida,Sandorini ) ,   Libya ,Austria, Czech Republic , Syria , Netherlands (Amsterdam) , America (Canada, Washington, New York, Boston, Rhode Island)

In 2010 I am going to New zealand for my Gap year- working holiday . And hopefully next stop - Indonesia :)))

I can assure you that I wont settle down for a longgg time to come

A strange fact about me, is that I actually enjoy spending time by myself. I don't enjoy crowds and I actively avoid filling up my days with meaningless tasks and social events. I didn't think it was at all strange, but apparently according to just about everyone else I know... not to be totally dependent on the company of others 24/7 or mindlessly busy so there is no time to think ...is just ...wrong.

When I was a kid I thought food only came from a store or in packages. I didn't know you could make meals from scratch, that your suppose to grow,harvest,and prepare food. It wasn't until the end of 6th grade that my friend was making cookies from scratch that I realized this."ohhh, you CAN make cookies with these ingredients? They don't just come in a box?"

I'm also the ONLY health conscious Vegetarian in my entire family and I'm also the only one in my family interested in primitive skills.(living off the land and not a market place)

-I can blow bubbles out with my tongue.

-I'm double jointed.

-My entire family and I have absolutely NOTHING in common.

-I too have a birthmark on my butt.

-I know when the weather is going to change because I get either a headache or ear infection.

GW I understand completely - I am socially self sustaining - prefer working by myself and my own company.  I was raised in isolation so got used to it I think - find small talk impossible.

wierd facts about me

I am studying to be a homeopath after a long successful career as a computer engineer

I had a perfect GPA in college (but failed both penmanship and typing in HS - due to dyslexia)

live with a feral cat from Hawaii

I whistle and quite shrilly by sucking air in, rather than blowing out like most folks.

Speaking of butts, I was once horned in mine by a cow.

I'm not military, but was in the midst of an active war zone once in a third world country.

I'm not formally medically trained but I have helped remove an extra toe & finger in a surgical procedure assisting someone who knew what they were doing.

I'm not an undertaker, but I have been to an embalming. 

I have a knifing scar.

I managed a credit union at a hospital when I was only 16 years old. 

uummmm...those extra toe & finger digits?  Not mine, BTW! 

OK, here goes.

 No birthmarks on my butt, but two dimples on the right cheek.  Kind of looks like when you stick your finger in rising dough and the imprint remains...  And I have no idea why they are there, or if I was born that way... just noticed them one day!

 I have double-jointed elbows.

 If I trusted myself, I could cook without a timer.  9 times out of 10, I end up going to check whatever is cooking about a minute before the timer goes off.  

 Being tickled drives me crazy in a bad way.

 I hate having my belly button touched.

 I know someone with webbed toes!!

 My husband's cousin's wife has her organs switched -- literally a mirror image of what people usually have.  Heart on the right side, appendix on the left and so on.  She actually wears a bracelet in case she's ever taken to the hospital in an emergency.