“So I threw the ball and I do not have good aim.”

Well, maybe, I guess -- so we were playing this dodgeball game but if you got out -- well, it wasn't teams. There were like five balls and you can move all, all around but you couldn't move with the ball. If you got out, you had to go behind the basketball hoop and try to make it and if you did everyone was back in. So we were playing dodgeball and I had the ball. And there was a student in my class right in front of me. And he was actually new — he had been there for like two weeks. And I was trying to like aim to get him out because, you know, why wouldn't I if it's dodgeball? And so I threw the ball and I do not have good aim because it hit him in the head and I felt so bad because he had just gotten there and he started crying and I just felt terrible because -- yeah, I didn't mean to hit him in the head. And it got a little intense there, so.

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“I remember thinking before the race, like ‘What if I end up finishing in front of all the other girls that are faster than me?’”

Oh, oh, oh, so I had a cross country race this fall. I wo- -- I'm not the fastest. I'm the fourth fastest on our team. Um, third or fourth fastest on our team and -- for girls. All th- -- like almost all the boys are faster than me. So there was this one race, the big invitational, and our top runner -- she kinda did this a lot, she started like throwing up and -- on the side of the course and I passed her and I was like "Oh this is not good, right?" And usually when that happens, she just like passes me right back and, um, still does really well because she has a crazy last -- crazy fast last mile. That did not happen and then I passed the two other girls that were in front of me from our team and so for the first time ever, and probably the only time ever, I was the fastest finisher for our team in a cross country race. And I thought that that was nuts because I, I remember thinking before the race, like "What if I end up finishing in front of all the other girls that are faster than me?" And I did and it was crazy and I just felt like really cool. Like during the race, I felt really good and I think I negative splitted the third mile. And like, so many people came up to me after and they just, like, told me how proud they were. And I dunno, it was just a big moment for me because I, I never saw myself as like a fast runner and I think that really helped boost my confidence.

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“This doggone little spider got six of us women laughing so hard…”

My mother, my cousin, her daughter, my sister, and my sister-in-law all went to Shipshewana in Indiana. And, Shipshewana, there's booths and it's a big flea market. And then the town -- you can walk through and see all the different little shops that they have in town. But they're selling a lot of stuff so we had wandered in to get a drink. There was a little sit down area and we wandered in to get a drink and we were in a store, obviously, attached to the little soda fountain, soda fountain and, um, we were walking around. And the gals all -- their sodas came up so we all went and sat down and I had brought from what I was looking at to the table to show them. It was a little box and you just moved the top. But when you move the top, a spider jumped out and touched your finger and you’d scream and you’d laugh. Well, this doggone little spider got six of us women laughing so hard we were peeing ourselves, we were crying, we had stitches in our side, we hurt from, from laughing. And then somebody would do it again and it would set us off again and we would just laugh. We laughed for about 45 minutes. That silly little box with the spider attached to it had us, not giggling, but full out ugly laughing. It was so much fun.

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“The next time that she went there, there was a sign on the window.”

One of them was, "Have you ever created a rule based on something that you did?" It wasn't me. It was my mother. She was a kindergarten teacher and there were certain things that she had her students bring in cash for. One of them was the book sale. She would send home book order with them and they were like on this really thin paper. It was like two pages front and back and you could order books for a pretty reasonable price and the kids would come in with their envelope full of, full of money, you know with what they -- and their order sheet and they would get, they would get these -- they would get the books and she would have popcorn sales. So it was like 50 cents for a bag of popcorn and the kids would bring in their money and that money then went back to the classroom so that they could purchase things for the classrooms and things. So she sometimes had all of this change that she would have to figure out what to do with, and so she usually would just take it to the bank and get it in bills, and, you know, instead of all of this, you know, just, just all kinds of, all kinds of change.  So she went to the bank and was in the outer lane. So not the lane that's up against the building where you can set your transaction into the slot that you know is directly into the building but rather at one of the terminals where y- -- it shoots up through the like the vacuum packed -- the vacuum sucker thing. Well, she just had coins and coins and coins and coins that she shoved into that, um, canister that went into the vacuum, um, chamber and apparently that did not go over well that there were all those coins in that, um, in that canister. The next time that she went there, there was a sign on the window that said, "Please do not put coins in this, in this canister," you know, "if you have coins you need to basically come inside or, you know, use the other window" or whatever. And I think that sign is, like, still up there. Like I'm pretty sure -- I mean this was -- I mean, my mom hasn't…

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