http://tellmeaboutthe.com Everyone has something interesting to say... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:36:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, the beginning of this year, I did extensive travelling for work. For some reason, as I was travelling, I decided to make things interesting, and first, I hit a deer. It was in a work vehicle, so $1800 later, the Scion was fixed. Then, Im home and someone backs ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/can-we-say-accident-prone/ This is my geekiest thought about how the world would or could be if it were connected by rails - and if the mail system was run by underground complex tube systems. Cars would all be on trolley-type rail systems so no one would get in any car accidents. Also, ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/world-running-on-rails/ My husband and I had just found out we were expecting and went in for our first ultrasound at 8 weeks. Before hand, everyone had been teasing us about twins. But NO, not me I only wanted to have an only child. Well, she was doing the u/s and we ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/that-shut-my-husband-up/ When I was 19 or 20 years old and in the Army I injured my foot. I needed to have a foot surgery performed. I had never been under any type of anesthesia before and I was so afraid and worried that I would wake up. I spoke with the ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/woke-during-surgery/ Below is my true story (actual journal entry) of the stupidest and most dangerous thing I've ever done in my life. I was working as a civil contractor in Iraq (at Baghdad Airport) 6 months after the war started. I was 21 years old (and looked like I was 16). My ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/i-took-a-company-car-drove-downtown-baghdad-im-american/ When I was 16 I was an exchange student through the Rotary Youth Exchange program. I was from Wisconsin and sent to Bangkok and living with a Thai Family. One day (at a big family event and gathering) we were all sitting at a dinner table at a nice restaurant. ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/i-tried-to-speak-thai-but-said-something-disguisting/ I live in Thailand (although I am an American) and my home is not in a touristy area. A couple months ago I drove by a gas station to see a homeless foreigner sitting hunched over, clearly starving and alone. Well, I've seen this foreigner sitting in the exact same ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/homeless-man-deceived-me/ We were pretty broke growing up. Broke and bored. We lived in a crappy apartment and had nothing to do. One day I told my 11 year old sister I would pay her $1 to jump off our second story balcony. It was pretty high- I wouldn't have ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/deal-breaker-balcony-jump/ For my 18th birthday I decided I wanted to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. If you have never gone skydiving you will never understand the rush of it all. I was to do a static line jump. This means I jump out of the airplane ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/1st-skydive-jump/ When you see a sunset there is a lag from the time the light passes into your eye to the time your brain decides what it is seeing. This time is thought to be nearly instant, but it is not instant. Your senses, sense before your brain computes. Everything your ... http://tellmeaboutthe.com/the-future-is-the-past/