Yep, 100 liters. It was a shop vac with a capacity of 75 liters, and he emptied about one and one-third tanks full of dead bugs.
We played games in the youth soccer thing I was in, but I just didn't get into it. I didn't enjoy any physical activity like that until high school, when I picked something (track and cross-country) which was my choice and not my parents' latest plan to make me healthy and well-rounded.
Since I lived in Canada until I was 12, we didn't play baseball much, so when we were visiting some relatives in the US and my cousins coaxed me out to a baseball game, I was amazed how tedious it was. Americans must have extraordinary attention spans, I thought.
And to think they make fun of Canadians for their interest in curling. Curling is a first-person shooter compared to baseball.
Was your refusal to have the other kids sign the ball just because the experience annoyed you, or because you don't like it when people write on your stuff? I could imagine doing the same thing in that circumstance when I was little. Some kids wrote their names on their books and such, but that appalled me. Even now I don't like it. And I'm positively neurotic about writing on skin; friends who really want to push my buttons (or who have a profound death wish) attempt to write things on me. Needless to say, I won't ever be a tattoo parlor customer.
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Date: 2005-04-12 10:05 am (UTC)We played games in the youth soccer thing I was in, but I just didn't get into it. I didn't enjoy any physical activity like that until high school, when I picked something (track and cross-country) which was my choice and not my parents' latest plan to make me healthy and well-rounded.
Since I lived in Canada until I was 12, we didn't play baseball much, so when we were visiting some relatives in the US and my cousins coaxed me out to a baseball game, I was amazed how tedious it was. Americans must have extraordinary attention spans, I thought.
And to think they make fun of Canadians for their interest in curling. Curling is a first-person shooter compared to baseball.
Was your refusal to have the other kids sign the ball just because the experience annoyed you, or because you don't like it when people write on your stuff? I could imagine doing the same thing in that circumstance when I was little. Some kids wrote their names on their books and such, but that appalled me. Even now I don't like it. And I'm positively neurotic about writing on skin; friends who really want to push my buttons (or who have a profound death wish) attempt to write things on me. Needless to say, I won't ever be a tattoo parlor customer.