Monday, March 09, 2015

What is Your "Claim to Fame"?

Yick.
Do you have something that you consider to be your "claim to fame"? Longtime readers of this blog might remember that back in 2008 I wrote about how up until that point, I'd never eaten a taco. I was wondering if a thing I had while on vacation in Mexico finally qualified. (The consensus was that it did.)

I still use the "Madonna went to my high school" tidbit referenced in that same post whenever I'm in a situation that requires an "interesting fact about you." But my other go-to statement that tends to shock people is that I've never had coffee. As in, I've never even tried it. Not one sip. This seems to blow a lot of people's minds. Apparently even those who don't consider themselves to be coffee drinkers have at least tried the stuff at some point.

But not me. Not even coffee-flavored ice cream. Not even one of those fancy drinks at Starbucks that has a ton of other stuff in it along with a tiny bit of coffee. NO COFFEE.

There's no reason for this except that I think even the smell of coffee is gross. I know there are people who can't get up in the morning unless they smell a freshly brewed pot of joe wafting through their house. That's something I don't understand.

Know anyone like this?I'm a tea girl, but even with that I'm not too extreme. I have one big mug of Earl Grey each morning and that's it. I'm not too happy if something causes me to have to skip that mug, but I don't transform into a terrible beast in search of caffeine, either.

My husband actually drinks neither. He'll have a bowl of cereal in the morning or a banana or something, but no caffeine. (He will drink coffee or an espresso at restaurants every now and then, though, so he can't steal my no-coffee-ever-whatsoever thunder.)

I'm curious to see if anyone else has one of these claims to fame that they're oddly proud of—something that seems to truly surprise people?

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1 comment:

Julie said...

I haven't owned a car in over 20 years. Most people are aghast that I don't own a car, despite the fact that I live in a city (Pittsburgh) and my condo is 100 feet from a major bus line. Unfortunately, unlike you, we do not have Peapod (major frowny face) so I do get asked "How do you get groceries?" to which I reply "At the store, and then I take them home on the bus." The longer answer is I take my collapsible grocery cart (a/k/a the Babushka Lady cart), load it up and take it on the bus at odd hours so I can take me and my loaded cart on the bus and I'm not in the way and no one minds.

I've lived in other places (most notably the DC area) and not owning a car was considered a sane move rather than a head-scratching one. But here? Not so much.