I once harbored impure thoughts toward a co-member of a church youth group. Indeed, but for her I almost certainly would have resisted my mom's suggestion that I join.
Once in a high-school baseball game I was on-deck with two out in the last inning and I hoped that my teammate would make the last out, causing our team to lose, just to save myself the humiliation of batting again against the pitcher, who had a very good curveball. He did make the last out, we lost, and I then reproached myself for having made him make an out by cheering against him in my soul. Then I reproached myself further for irrationality.
Once, filling out a performance review at work for a "pretty good" employee, I sped down column 4, labeled "exceeds expectations," checking every box without reading a word, just to save time. Then I thought that looked suspicious so I changed a few of them to 5. Don't actually feel too bad about that one.
Sometimes I get pissy with my kids for asking too many questions. I notice this only happens when I don't know the answers.
Thinking about making this a series but it took about 50 years just to collect those four.
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