Ensor's Jar of Balloons Survey, 2014 Edition in Surveys

  • Jan. 31, 2014, 1:18 a.m.
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1.) Will you agree to let a lover use your toothbrush? Why or why not?

After what we just did, yeah sure, why not?

2.) In your bad dreams do you ever throw the slow motion punch?

No, but I slow motion brake all the time. I have recurring dreams where I can't quite reach the brakes.

3.) Do you eat or give away pickles?

I don't hate pickles, but I don't seek them out, and I don't like them on my sandwiches. If there is a pickle spear on my plate someone asks for it, they can have it. If they don't, chances are 50/50 it will still be on my plate when I am done.

4.) Do you match and ball socks or just dump them, en masse, into the drawer?

I match them, but I don't ball them. I just fold them into pairs.

5.) Do you bisect your sevens with one of those squiggly hyphens? When writing the number 2 do you loop the bottom?

I don't bisect my sevens, and I sometimes loop my twos.

6.) When eating out, do you set your knife atop your plate and change hands?

I typically will just keep my fork where it is at and eat with my left hand, depending.

7.) Do you tear into wrapped presents or open them neatly with the spoken intent to save the paper?

I don't remember the last time I opened a wrapped present.

8.) Would you rather drive or be driven?

I would rather be driven, especially in inclement weather.

9.) Do you engage strangers in conversations on airplanes? If no, it's odd, isn't it, when the time comes to accept peanut packets or order sodas and you hear their voices?

I abhor small talk, and especially on airplanes will do anything to look busy and deter it.

10.) Do you own a bathrobe?

I own two. Both were gifts. From people who apparently didn't know I don't wear bathrobes.

11.) Are they still there, those ascending horizontal lines that marked your growth as a child up a wall or a door?

We never did that when I was growing up.

12.) Can you write at all with your opposite hand?

Not even a little

13.) Do audiences affect your attempts to urinate or parallel park?

Not to urinate, although I don't tend to make it a public practice. Parallel parking- oh yes- or parking, driving in general. I absolutely get nervous.

14.) Do you bookmark or dog-ear your books?

I use a playing card as a bookmark. The two of hearts, if you were wondering. Recently though I've used a hotel key card I've become attached to.

15.) Do you mind fighting losing battles?

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

16.) Do you check the dates on coins?

What the fuck is a coin?

17.) Do you like to be the one who holds the tickets (for airplanes, movies, etc.)?

No. I quite like my man to do so.

18.) Can you sleep with socks on?

I really don't like to, but recently have been forced to by sub-zero temps and a bedroom that is always 20 degrees colder than the rest of my apartment. I miss my furnace.

19.) Are you a sucker for foreign accents?

It really depends on which kind. I actually think British accents make most men sound a little light in the loafers. I'm a sucker for a Canadian, Irish, or Cajun accent somehow.

20.) Are you skilled at giving directions?

Yes, I am extremely good at saying 'punch it in to your GPS'.

21.) Is your name frequently mispronounced?

Yes, first and definitely last.

22.) Do you attempt to pronounce foreign words correctly, such as calling a crescent-shaped roll a cwaSAHN?

No, it's absolutely pronounced enDIVE.

23.) Do you think grades in school mattered?

Not really. I didn't ever do my homework, but thankfully tested well and got into college on account of my ACT scores, and certainly not my shit GPA.

24.) Can you tie a tie? What about a bowtie?

I could probably after watching a YouTube video.

25.) Does making a good list ever feel like an accomplishment in itself?

I am a list maker. And the only thing better than making a list is crossing something off of it. Sometimes I will go to cross something off and realized I never added it, so I will add it just to cross it off. It's good to feel accomplished.

26.) Have you ever been on fire?

No, but I have set someone on fire.

27.) Are your faucets tricky to the point where were an out-of-towner to use your shower, you'd feel the need to give a tutorial?

Thankfully no, but that happens alarmingly often.

28.) Do you tend (or did you tend) to date people older or younger than yourself?

My username when I played online poker was Mrs. Robinson.

29.) When walking or driving with a companion in a place where your companion is familiar and you are not, do you tend not to pay any attention whatsoever?

I tend to do this regardless.

30.) Do the number of beaches you've been on exceed your fingers?

Are we counting thumbs as fingers? So 8 or 10? Either way, I have no idea. I've been on some beaches.


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