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Answering a writing prompt

Athena
4 min readApr 1, 2024

I’m answering a writing prompt posted by Sharon Meyers

  1. If you could jump into a pool of anything, what would it be full of

Anything? I’m pretty vanilla so I’d still just go with water. Anything else to me seems messy.

What is the weirdest thing you’ve eaten?

I don’t really eat weird things. I don’t even like ketchup. I would probably say something like mustard pretzels would be as adventurous as I’ve gotten.

What’s the silliest way you’ve ever gotten an injury?

I would say stepping on a nail and stepping on a lightening rod. I am up to three nails and a lightening rod now. My food seems to find them every 10 years — and is a streak I’d prefer to break. The first was when I was only 5 in a cow barn. I was about 15 when I ran a nail into my foot from some work of people building a garage onto our house.

My next was a lightning rod my husband had cut off at the ground. I went out to check on our phone connect (back when phone’s had cords) and happened to step down on the rod as I was trying to remove the cover of the box. The final nail was while cleaning at my mothers. A board had fallen off her shed — nail side up and of course my foot had to find it.

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Athena
Athena

Written by Athena

Mom of three boys. Computer programmer living in the country with my husband focusing on my hobbies and youngest son. https://ko-fi.com/athenaandrew

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