20 Random Questions About Me! (General)

Member Name: chrisandmark

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Date:	26/02/08 (840 review reads)
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Advantages: Learn about my favourite food, books, debit card spending and the Red Cockaded Woodpecker

Disadvantages: You won't really give a stuff will you, come on now, be honest!

Cut the waffle, 20 questions about me! :O)

1. How long, on average, does it take you to get rid of someone trying to sell you something over the phone?

Not long at all. As soon as I realise they're trying to flog me something I politely say 'no thanks, I'm not interested' and put the phone down before they have a chance to respond. If they DARE to phone me back a minute later then I lose the calm, polite exterior and have been known to swear at them.

~ 2. What is the most expensive object you have ever broken on purpose? ('when angry' counts as 'on purpose' even if you regretted it soon afterwards)

A car!!! Me and Mark had a huuuuuuge arguement in Tesco a few years ago, and I mean one of those arguements which really should take place in the house not in the middle of a busy supermarket. When we got home I was in such a temper that I deliberately reversed our car into the drive gates, thinking they were unlocked and would just swing out of the way. Unfortunately they were locked and I ended up doing £400 worth of damage to the otherwise immaculate looking car... Needless to say the arguement got worse before it got better...

~ 3. If you buy something for 99p with a £1 coin, do you really want the 1p back?

Of course I want it back, it's mine! We have an oversized whisky bottle which all the copper goes in and roughly once every 3 months I'll take it to the Coinstar machine in Asda and get it counted up. There's usually £30 - £40 each time which I put towards that weeks shopping - that 30-ish quid would go straight into the shop keepers till if I were to tell them to keep the change everytime I bought something for 99p!

4. What was the last thing you shouted while alone in a car?

Well, it was only an hour ago so I remember perfectly. The word rhymed with 'banker' and was directed at an idiot in a Jag who thought he owned the road and pulled out straight in front of me at the junction.

~ 5. What is your typical path through a supermarket?

Typical path??? Doesn't everyone start at the door and work their way up and down the aisles until they reach the end? When I'm using our massive local Tesco I'll always have a look upstairs at the clothes and mobile phones before going to buy the groceries.

~ 6. Do you lick the underside of the foil top when eating a pot of yoghurt?

Not really, no. I don't really like yogurt enough to care about that tiny bit stuck to the lid - now if the question had read 'chocolate mousse' and not yogurt then the answer would have been different!

~ 7. How many greetings cards have you sent in the last 12 months?

Not many this year. I sent around 20 Christmas cards, family birthday cards and a couple of New Year cards. Probably 40-ish all in - although any other year the total would be at least double that amount.

~ 8. A criminal maniac invites you to "Pick a city for destruction, Mr. Bond." Which one do you choose?

I can't think of anywhere I hate enough to have destroyed to be honest! Well, there is Telford I suppose...

~ 9. Which font do you use most often?

I like Comic Sans because it's a fun and quirky font, I tend to use this one more than any other. I also like typing in Segoe Media Center when I'm doing a lot of text because it makes the whole thing easy to skim through to check for mistakes.

~ 10. If you had the choice between a petrol chainsaw or a bread knife, which would you use for felling a small tree with a 1" diameter trunk?

I'd use a bread knife as chainsaws terrify the pants off me! Mark uses a huge petrol chainsaw for work and I can't even watch him using it because it brings me out in a cold sweat - something so scary shouldn't be available to buy off the shelf!

~ 11. On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you that you know when to use a semicolon?

I'd say 8 out of 10 times that I use a semicolon I've used it correctly; a semi colon should, I think, be used when a comma isn't quite grammatically strong enough to split a sentence but when a full stop is too final.

~ 12. What proportion of the CDs you own are in their original cases right now?

All of them! Mark is absolutely fanatical about CD's being in the correct cases so I tend to leave him to put them away at the end of the evening. If it were down to me probably 10% might have found their way into the right cases as I'm useless!

~ 13. Favourite colour black or white?

White because it's fresh and clean looking.

~ 14. How accurate is the time on your watch?

I don't wear or own a watch! The time on my phone (the closest thing I can think of to a watch) is roughly five minutes fast, I set it deliberately fast so that my alarm goes off a bit early in the mornings.

~ 15. What are you wearing right now?

Black Next skinny fit jeans, a pink Nike t-shirt and a pair of my daughters socks with pictures of Cinderella on them.

~ 16. Have you ever written to, emailed or telephoned a newspaper, radio station, TV programme etc? If so, what did you say?

I have! I found out a couple of years ago that The Sun paid £10 for every letter printed so I started emailing them a few letters each week. I'd usually have half a dozen printed every month so it was always nice when the cheques arrived! I think they've stopped paying for the letters now (if I'm wrong, someone please let me know!) but I'm not sure as I don't have the time these days to pick up on the kind of stories which the paper are likely to print letters about.

~ 17. Do you, in the most fundamental depths of your soul, give a crap about the extinction of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker?

Not really, no.

~ 18. What is the cheapest thing you've bought with a debit or credit card in the past month?

A Philippa Gregory novel in WHSmiths last week. I think it cost £5.99

~ 19. Favourite books?

Anything by Philippa Gregory, Stephen King or Dean Koontz. I love the active imagination and descriptive writing that these three are so brilliant at, and will definitely make a point of reading anything new they bring out.

~ 20. What is your most favourite meal?

I adore Sunday Roast. It doesn't have to be a Sunday, of course, a Monday or Thursday Roast is just as good. A joint of meat cooked to perfection, roast potatoes, boiled new potatoes (in their skins), peas, sweetcorn, cauli, Yorkshire puds, stuffing, gravy and a good quality horseradish or cranberry sauce. Top this with thick, meaty gravy and there you have my most favourite meal.

So there you have it, me in a nutshell.

Summary: If you want to know about me, then this probably isn't the best way of doing it...! LOL