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[lynxreign]

Because I can't keep track of my own thoughts, chaoticmoth reminded me that I never posted the answer to the "2 truths and a lie" thing I stole from him.

Anyway, here is the answer. Falsehood is in red.

1. I once had 2000 lbs of steel fall on my legs and I walked away with nothing more than bruises


2. My grandmother was Joan of Arc


3. I got out of a speeding ticket by giving the officer donuts

1. I was working as a temp at a company that provided supplies and componants to the companies that made military jets. My manager asked me to restack some steel that had had one end slide off the stack below it and rest on the floor. Each stack was 2,000 lbs and I couldn't simply lift it, so I took a steel bar and levered it up. Since I had my back to it and was using my legs to assist in providing leverage, they were caught under the steel when the level I was using bent suddenly.
   I managed to step out from under the steel after it had come to rest on my legs and it clanged on the floor behind me. They sent me to the nurse and were quite surprised I was only bruised.


2. My grandmother was of French Canadian descent. While she used the name Jeanne, her given name was Jeanne d'Arc Gertrude Frappier. She'd be very upset about my telling people her middle name.


3. The donuts were on the seat next to me and he kept glancing over at them, but I never offered him one. Somehow I didn't get a ticket either.

Comments

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Ok. But I want to hear the stories/explanations! :)

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

How's that?

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Uh...the story of how weight dropped on your legs, thus causing your grandmother to be Joan of Arc?

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Do you not see the numbers by each one?

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

OH! Nevermind my comment! I thought you were saying to me "I don't know what you mean by 'hear the stories'!" - which *really* confused me. I took your "how's that?" to be a "what, now?" ;p

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Oh! I see. I should have been more specific. I just meant I'd added what you'd requested.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Your story about the steel scares me. It also reminds me of the time my evil ex-job from hell tried to force me to hook up a power supply/backup unit. I tried three times, and received massive shocks each time. I informed them I wouldn't try again.


Also: how many of us are French Canadian?! There's you, me, head58 - who else?

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

It scared them too! They thought they'd be sued!

I don't know who else. I do know that most of my grandmother's familiy was illegally here.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Where in Canada were they from?

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Quebec, as far as we know. Any time my grandmother asked her dad where he was born his reply was "In a barn, like Jesus."

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

-laughs!!-

My grandmother and her 13 brothers and sisters were pretty much from "outside Quebec," too. Apparently mainly centered around St Julien, but also Thetford Mines and Trois-Rivieres.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

He didn't want to tell Gram 'cause she'd mention it at school and then the cops would show up because he was illegal and then he'd have to increase their bribes.

[head58.livejournal.com]

My family is from Shippagan, NB. Family Legend is that my great great great grandfather (or some such) snuck over the border in a potato truck.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

-laughs!- Nice!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

I should point out Gram was here legally since she was born in Newark.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Woah! "Gram?" Not "memere?"

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Nope, Gram was wholly americanized and I never knew my great-grandmother.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

Oh man. My mom's bilingual, and her mother/stepfather definitely spoke french in the home when I was growing up.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

My great grandmother spoke mostly French. Gram was the 12th of 13 kids, so she probably didn't need much French.