2 Truths and A Lie; Daemon: Graced

[miss_brilliant]

2 TRUTHS AND A LIE
Preferred Alias: Amanda

1. I hate jello
2. I once broke someone else's big toe
3. I can write with my mouth

One Of These Is A Lie

Comments

[astralera]

Hello, Dr. Perry.

If I may ask, what is jello?

[miss_brilliant]

Hi.

It's a food usually served a dessert made out of gelatin with flavoring and dye mixed in. It jiggles.

[astralera]

That sounds rather unappetizing.

[miss_brilliant]

I think so. Some people like it a lot, though, since you can cut it into shapes and use it in alcoholic beverages and other things.

But it's often part of hospital meals, and spending a lot of time in and out of hospitals as a kid made me really lose my taste for it.

[astralera]

[ she's still not over the fact that it jiggles. ]

Why would a hospital serve the ill such a thing? It seems like it would make them more unwell. Food is not meant to jiggle unless it is still alive.

[miss_brilliant]

I am really not going to argue with you there. I still gag a little when I see it. Maybe they think it makes it more fun for kids, and it probably does for awhile? But the novelty wears off really quickly when you have it all the time.

But it's easy to swallow, since it dissolves pretty quickly and it's really hard to choke on. So it's safe, I guess.

[astralera]

That does make sense.

Wouldn't pudding suffice in its stead?

[miss_brilliant]

It does with some frequency too. And honestly, I can't eat pudding anymore either. Which is more of a shame. I actually liked pudding before. I always thought jello was bizarre.

[astralera]

Yes, I can't imagine coming to hate any desserts. [ she is a huge glutton when given the chance to eat good food. though she'll eat pretty much anything at least once. ] At least there are many other, better desserts you can still enjoy in place of pudding

[miss_brilliant]

Yeah, honestly that was one of the worst things about having to be in the hospital on a less dramatic level. Needles and things are awful, but realizing I couldn't stand pudding anymore was pretty depressing.

Thankfully I never lost my taste for ice cream. That would have been a real tragedy.

[astralera]

If you could not stand ice cream I'm afraid we could no longer speak.

text, daemon: alized

[deathstouch]

Is it 1? I would feel some agreement in the sentiment if so.

Re: text, daemon: alized

[miss_brilliant]

That's one of my truths. If I never saw jello again, I would be very happy. I think I had nightmares about the stuff when I was kid.

[deathstouch]

Nightmares about a food? Were you made to eat it?

[miss_brilliant]

Not forced precisely. But it was a staple of a lot of meals I had as a kid, and when I was in a place that wasn't really that fun to begin with. So really it's just that it's a frequently encountered and frankly disgusting reminder of a place that I didn't like anyway.

[deathstouch]

I see. That seems like a fair reason to scorn something, then.

Is 2 the lie?

[miss_brilliant]

Yep. He tried to insist it was broken, but it was just heavily bruised. And even if it had been, he would have deserved it.

[deathstouch]

Well, you are formidable it seems then.

You can write with your mouth, then?

[miss_brilliant]

Not really. I just barely rolled over the tip of his toe with a wheelchair. I moved it the second he made a noise, I was just trying to get his attention. It worked.

Yep. Not very well, but enough to get a couple notes down when other means weren't available or practical, and it was usually for things only I would be reading.

[deathstouch]

I see. It sounds as if he does not have a high pain tolerance or good shoes, then.

That is a a helpful talent to have acquired.

[miss_brilliant]

He was a whiner and he was scrambling for excuses not to work with me so he wouldn't have to realize I was actually as smart if not smarter than he was.

It was, although it's a lot less expedient than dictating. And it looks very ridiculous. It's not something I liked doing when I could avoid it, really, but when I couldn't it was useful.

[deathstouch]

I see. Some men are very fragile beings.

It's still quite an impressive feat to acquire to any mastery.

[miss_brilliant]

More in ego than their actual bodies, I've found.

Thanks. I guess that's another part of why I still do it from time to time, it seems a waste to get rusty when I spent a long time learning it. You never know when it might come in handy again.