“I was so angry. It was nothing like chocolate bread.” 
Adult

“I was so angry. It was nothing like chocolate bread.” 

“Tell us about a time you thought you saw one thing, but it turned out to be something else.” Okay. Okay, it's food too for me. Okay, so I was at my Uncle's funeral. And at the church, like under- underneath it -- no, it wasn't underneath the church, must have been next to the church. So, there was the banquet hall basically like, where all the food was set up. And there was this bread that it -- I was like, "Holy s***! Chocolate bread? They make chocolate bread? I have never even dreamed about this before, like, this is amazing! Chocolate bread!" And so I got a few pieces, you know, and I sat down and I started eating this chocolate bread. I thought it was chocolate bread. I had never heard of anything called pumpernickel bread. It was so disgusting. I hated it. I was so angry. It was nothing like chocolate bread. I was just very upset. And ever since then, up until I, I was like in my 20s basically, I refused to eat pumpernickel bread because of it. Turns out, pumpernickel bread's pretty good, but because of that experience I was like, "I don't want it. Bad...feelings," you know what I mean?

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November 12, 2023
“It was the shortest wedding he had ever performed.”
Adult

“It was the shortest wedding he had ever performed.”

You ask about if we'd ever been married. Yeah, I've been married for 47 years. And about our wedding day, that's always been a very interesting thing. My husband was in the military and Vietnam had just ended when we got married. And in order for me to go and visit him or be with him at all, I had to be -- we had to get married so I could be on to the military post and everything else. He had graduated from Michigan State's ROTC program. He was a newly minted second lieutenant. So he had like, no money and no power. But anyway. We were getting married and I was gonna teach junior high in southern Georgia, which I did do for three years while he was in the military. Our wedding was a lovely wedding in Northville, where I grew up, and, um, it was the hottest day of the summer, it was July 24th. And it was the hottest day of the summer and absolutely, positively miserable. The humidity was -- it was 93 degrees. And so was the humidity. It was so hot that our pastor told us later, many years later, that it was the shortest wedding he had ever performed. It took less than 20 minutes. He said to me that the entire sermon fit on a typed double-spaced page. Two -- or, page and a half of print. And he later, many years later, gave me a copy of the, of the sermon that he preached that day. But he said, "It's really not a sermon. It's more of a 'Here's what I have to say and let's get out of here ‘cause it's hot.'" He had fans running and the doors were all open because the church was not air-conditioned, but it was still a lovely wedding and it was, it was good.

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November 12, 2023
“At that moment man, I felt like the smallest person in the world.”
Teen

“At that moment man, I felt like the smallest person in the world.”

Tell us about a time where you've had your heart broken. Get ready. I've had it broken quite a bit, so. Um, hmm, the most memorable story I can think of -- I was just telling this to my friends today, ironically --  uh, was fourth grade. I think it was fourth or fifth grade. So at this time, I liked a guy, uh, we're gonna call him X, right? So he was -- he didn't even have that many qualities that I liked. I'm pretty sure I just liked him because he was like the class clown or whatever and I thought that was cool. Or maybe it's because he was athletic or something. I don't know. Back in elementary, if you were athletic you got all the girls. There's, there's no refuting that honestly, So basically he was the new kid of that year, or something like that. And he was Asian, he had pretty hair. And that's all it took apparently. I know it sounds very superficial. But then again, elementary school, it’s the place to be superficial, man. It's like the last place you can be superficial before your choices actually have consequences. So yeah. I liked him and I liked him for like, what, four months? Five months? For, for a bit of time. And then one day I tell one of my friends, right? And the problem is this is elementary, so we don't know what we're doing. That friend goes and tells him. Oof, that was not fun ‘cause I would say "Don't do it!" They do it. They, they do it. And so I was like, oh so embarrassed. And then next thing I know, dude comes up to my locker and he's like, "So I heard that you like me." And I'm like, "Oh dear me. Oh no. No, no, no, no, no." Like what, what can you do? What, what can you do other than say the truth? Because they've already heard the truth. They're literally just like confirming it one last time. What can you do? So I'm like, "Yeah, yeah." And so they just like look at me weird and then go away. And so, you know, I'm still wallowing in humiliation and all that stuff. And then we're at the -- I'm at -- I'm getting in line to walk to lunch, right? 'Cause in elementary you…

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November 12, 2023
“She ripped it in half the day before it was due.”
Teen

“She ripped it in half the day before it was due.”

“Has your pet ever eaten your homework or ruined something that you've worked hard on?” Oh gosh, yes.  Okay, so my freshman year there was this huge group poster project about mental health. So my group was making this giant poster that was cut out in the shape of a face with tons of information about OCD and it was all handwritten and it looked really pretty. And my puppy, Lady Madonna -- I love her but, oh gosh, she ripped it in half the day before it was due and then I had to redo the entire project for the group. Luckily, I had pictures of it, but it was not fun.

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November 12, 2023
“How is this supposed to help me get practice for playing goalie?”
Kid

“How is this supposed to help me get practice for playing goalie?”

I am going to be talking about what has happened today, um, during my soccer practice. So in a different diary, I have said some things about my soccer team. And today, something kind of silly happened. So, um, we were doing a scrimmage -- and if you don't know what that is, it means like a non-real game. It's just where your team gets split up into two. And I was playing goalie for my side. And what happened was the, the, um -- well, my teammates were keeping up the ball -- the ball up the field, I mean, so much that the ball only came to me once. Like literally only once, like it never came up to me. And I’m like, "Uh, the ball's not coming to me." In my mind I was thinking, "How is this supposed to help me get practice for playing goalie?" And then we were -- and then we had like a real-ish scrimmage, I guess, against the girls' team that play in the field right next to us. Well, it's, it's technically the same field but in a different soccer box, I guess, since there are the sidelines in -- behind the goalie b- box. So it's kind of like a rectangle. Let's say the other rectangle. And they play there and sometimes we scrimmage them. And the thing is me -- I, I think most people on my team were like dying to play some soccer because, um, last week one of our practices was canceled and we only have two practices every week. Plus our game was canceled, so I didn't get to play as goalie last week, but now I think I am. Um, and it was pretty funny. But in the girls’ scrimmage the ball did come to me a bit more. One time, my friend, who is on my team, was playing defense -- or when I was playing goalie, they were playing defense. And someone was running up on the other team with the ball. This wasn't the -- our scrimmage, it was the game against the girls. It was only like 20 minutes long. And they were right at the goal. But -- and they were on the left side and I didn't know where my left defender was. So I tried to -- so I grabbed the ball, but then I didn't…

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November 12, 2023
“It really doesn’t fit me very much, but that’s why it’s Wacky Tacky Day.”
Kid

“It really doesn’t fit me very much, but that’s why it’s Wacky Tacky Day.”

Oh, yeah, today is Wacky Tacky Day. And it's fun! I'll describe what I'm wearing. So, in my hair, I'm not really [doing] anything crazy, but I have half my hair pulled up into a bun and the rest is down. And then I'm wearing the bright, um, orange shirt -- like, a neon orange shirt, and under that, I'm wearing a gold academy shirt? This gold academy shirt, I actually won it during a challenge thing. So the challenge was -- um, I was at this camp, and it was a girls and boys camp, and one of the days -- every day, they would pick someone to shoot a free throw, and if they made it, they'd win like a jersey or, like, something like that. And the day -- that day's thing was a jersey, and they picked me to shoot the free throw, and I made the free throw. And then they gave me the jersey, but since it's a men's and women's camp, first grade through tenth grade, it's a men's large. So it really doesn't fit me very much, but that's why it's Wacky Tacky Day. Um, and then under that, I'm wearing my bear pajama pants and they're really comfy. I didn't wear them to bed, though. I wore other pajama pants to bed because I didn't want them to be dirty, cuz that's kinda gross. And then I'm wearing one dog sock and one snowman sock -- fluffy socks -- and Crocs.

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November 12, 2023

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