Gutter's 5 Questions for a mid July Sunday (or whenever you choose to answer the questions)

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. Have you ever played Pickleball?


2. On a scale of 1-100 (1 being horribly depressed and 100 being euphorically happy) how happy/depressed were you immediately before you read this question?


3. Which is your favorite snack of the following?

a. pretzels
b. peanuts/almonds
c. potato chips
d. carrots
e. grapes
f. cheese and crackers
g. Slim Jims (not beef jerky - Slim Jims)
h. Licorice or Jelly Beans
i. Oreos

4. Name something you owned as a child that you treasured.


5. Someone gives you 50K and you must spend all the money on one of the following choices. You can not give anything away nor sell anything.

a. An automobile/SUV of your choice and if you choose, all of the expenses that come with owning the automobile/SUV (or you can spend all 50K on the car and you pay the expenses out of pocket).

b. Two person trip to the destination of your choice for 10 days. You must use the money to fly first class and stay in a $2500 a night room/suite at a hotel. The rest of the money you can use however you want (i.e. food, alcohol, sight seeing, transportation/car rental) on the trip but you can't use it to buy things to take back home with you.

c. Bet on a horse that is 7-1 odds and is not the favorite to win in a 10 horse race. If the horse wins, you get to keep $75,000. If it loses, you get nothing.

d. Home improvements (NOT furniture or appliances).

e. Clothing from Bloomingdales.

f. Party for 100 people of your choice at the restaurant/bar of your choice with 50K of the cost/s of food/drink/entertainment fully covered.

[DeletedUser]

1. Yes. High school PE class.

2. 90

3. Grapes

4. Jacque Vaughn jersey. My son has it now. It's held up surprisingly well.

5. Home improvements.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. Yes. High school PE class.

2. 90

3. Grapes

4. Jacque Vaughn jersey. My son has it now. It's held up surprisingly well.

5. Home improvements.

1. HS PE class? I knew people were playing a long time ago but I didn't think it started to get popular until well in to the 2000s. I know you're younger than me but maybe you're even younger than I thought.

[DeletedUser]

1. Yes. High school PE class.

2. 90

3. Grapes

4. Jacque Vaughn jersey. My son has it now. It's held up surprisingly well.

5. Home improvements.

1. HS PE class? I knew people were playing a long time ago but I didn't think it started to get popular until well in to the 2000s. I know you're younger than me but maybe you're even younger than I thought.

I graduated HS in 2004.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. No. Paddle tennis a couple of times but Pickleball - no.
2. 51. Yesterday at this time, 11.
3. Favorite is Slim Jims but not my #1 go to.
4. Define child. As a kid between 3 and 13, my bike/s. As a 17 year old - my jeep.
5. None of the options are good for me but I am torn between the car and the horse wager. I'll go with the car being that I don't presently own one. Only problem is the insane costs for me to have one.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. Yes. High school PE class.

2. 90

3. Grapes

4. Jacque Vaughn jersey. My son has it now. It's held up surprisingly well.

5. Home improvements.

1. HS PE class? I knew people were playing a long time ago but I didn't think it started to get popular until well in to the 2000s. I know you're younger than me but maybe you're even younger than I thought.

I graduated HS in 2004.

You're still a baby.

[DeletedUser]

Middle aged based on life expectancy.

Just don't let the old man in.

[Shirley]

1. No, although I get an email about it at least weekly from the CC I belong to.

2. 80

3. I eat at least 1/4th cup of almonds every day, and love them...but I so rarely let myself eat potato chips, I'd probably chose those, with blue or manchego cheese and crackers, which I don't allow myself to eat often either, a close 2nd.

..."Grapes"...

"Grapes"!?
I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. (But, at least you're young, ~ 38 y/o, so you still have time to learn.)

4. Hard to think of anything. My Schwinn Stingray bicycle?

5. b Although I have no idea where to, or who I'd take.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Middle aged based on life expectancy.

Just don't let the old man in.

Crazy you say that!
I had never heard my mother say something similar to that until close to her 90th birthday.
She decided to write a book about her life and had someone actually help write it with/for her.
On the back cover, .... "reflects on her remarkable journey, recounting the challenges she faced and the triumphs she achieved. Still incredibly active, she shares her mantra when people inquire about her secret: "I don't let the old lady in". This phrase captures her determination to remain youthful (not the word I would have chosen) and embrace life with unwavering enthusiasm".

Yeah, I know. I could/should learn something from her.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. No, although I get an email about it at least weekly from the CC I belong to.

2. 80

3. I eat at least 1/4th cup of almonds every day, and love them...but I so rarely let myself eat potato chips, I'd probably chose those, with blue or manchego cheese and crackers, which I don't allow myself to eat often either, a close 2nd.

..."Grapes"...

"Grapes"!?
I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. (But, at least you're young, ~ 38 y/o, so you still have time to learn.)

4. Hard to think of anything. My Schwinn Stingray bicycle?

5. b Although I have no idea where to, or who I'd take.

3. You and my mother could be best friends - with the almonds.
4. BINGO. Did you read my response to #4?

[Shirley]

1. No, although I get an email about it at least weekly from the CC I belong to.

2. 80

3. I eat at least 1/4th cup of almonds every day, and love them...but I so rarely let myself eat potato chips, I'd probably chose those, with blue or manchego cheese and crackers, which I don't allow myself to eat often either, a close 2nd.

..."Grapes"...

"Grapes"!?
I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. (But, at least you're young, ~ 38 y/o, so you still have time to learn.)

4. Hard to think of anything. My Schwinn Stingray bicycle?

5. b Although I have no idea where to, or who I'd take.

3. You and my mother could be best friends - with the almonds.
4. BINGO. Did you read my response to #4?

I had read your response to #4, but had forgotten it when I answered mine.


Any chance your mother is rich, and single?

[Back2Lawrence]

1. No. But I bought a racket a couple min to an ago. I’m in the unused bought items bin, along with my waffle maker and a 3 pack of magnums. I didn’t use the last items for a multitude of reasons.

2. I have been unmoved emotionally from any events that happened yesterday.

3. Oreos. But I try to steer clear.

4. Green Machine. It might have been the only time I was cooler than most of my peers. Peaking at 5 sucks.

5. The car would help me most. So the Car. Curious about 7-1 horse only paying 75k on a 50k wager? Does that math right?

[pdub]

1. Yes
2. 49
3. If its favorite tasting its C chips. If its favorite in terms of what I eat more of is a snack it’s B, peanuts/almonds.
4. Castle Grayskull
5. D - home improvement

[pdub]

1. HS PE class? I knew people were playing a long time ago but I didn't think it started to get popular until well in to the 2000s. I know you're younger than me but maybe you're even younger than I thought.

I graduated HS in 2004.

You're still a baby.

I played pickleball in lifetime sports, a popular high school elective at LHS and Free State.

My younger brother took it three times.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

1. No, although I get an email about it at least weekly from the CC I belong to.

2. 80

3. I eat at least 1/4th cup of almonds every day, and love them...but I so rarely let myself eat potato chips, I'd probably chose those, with blue or manchego cheese and crackers, which I don't allow myself to eat often either, a close 2nd.

"Grapes"!?
I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. (But, at least you're young, ~ 38 y/o, so you still have time to learn.)

4. Hard to think of anything. My Schwinn Stingray bicycle?

5. b Although I have no idea where to, or who I'd take.

3. You and my mother could be best friends - with the almonds.
4. BINGO. Did you read my response to #4?

I had read your response to #4, but had forgotten it when I answered mine.


Any chance your mother is rich, and single?

Lulz! Single - yes. Rich - no.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I graduated HS in 2004.

You're still a baby.

I played pickleball in lifetime sports, a popular high school elective at LHS and Free State.

My younger brother took it three times.

I'm jealous.
When I was in high school, for about a month every year in PE we had to swim indoors wearing ridiculous school provided speedo like "swim trunks" that I was convinced weren't washed and were just thrown in a bucket of dirty water.
I would have chosen Pickleball with a screwdriver lodged in my ear over the swimming.

[DeletedUser]

I'm jealous.
When I was in high school, for about a month every year in PE we had to swim indoors wearing ridiculous school provided speedo like "swim trunks"

I'd rather die.

[Shirley]

I'm jealous.
When I was in high school, for about a month every year in PE we had to swim indoors wearing ridiculous school provided speedo like "swim trunks"

I'd rather die.

At my high school in Wichita we swam naked.

Not kidding.

[DeletedUser]

I missed the good ol days I guess

[Sparko]

1. We played a variation of it where we couldn't let the ball bounce. Badmitton is probably a good analog
2. 50. Trump chaos has made everyone meh for a decade now
3. Carrots. But chips are easier.
4. My modified Schwinn with banana seat
5. House renovations