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In case you haven't noticed, I'm obsessed with learning more about people and what makes them tick. Don't ask me why. It's just my thing. I like to ask people questions.
 
My brain is filled with all the answers too. They're filed away for future reference if I should ever need to recall them again.
 
So this post will be more of the same. But this time it's just one question.
 
Tell me something about yourself that no one would ever guess.
 
It doesn't have to be a dark secret, but something that not everyone knows, or wouldn't expect to hear from you.
 
Something like you play piano by ear. Or you know how to build a rocket. Or you like eating peanut butter and ketchup sandwiches. Or you once met the president.
 
Anything. It can be serious or funny or strange.
 
I'm just curious. And a little bored.
 
I'll give my answer later, but I'm not going first this time.
 
 
 


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  • evil_twin said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Well crap....I guess I have to go first since no one else seems to be around. I'm just waiting for dinner to be ready. Why are you so bored? Don't you have a small child to keep you entertained?

    Let's see, something people wouldn't know about me. I'm not spilling any dark secrets here, but I once met Ron Jeremy. The porn star. He's a cool guy, actually. Really funny. I talked to him for a long time at a party. So there! I bet most people wouldn't have guessed that about me. I partied with a porn star! Too bad it was Mr. Jeremy and not a hot chick....

    -Kyle
  • hinana said on Nov 18, 2007....

    about me...i like things to be organized and neat and clean..

    you wouldnt guess that because im a total slob..or im just lazy...

  • destinydiva said on Nov 18, 2007....
    I did escorting once.........  not sex...just sold my company :-) easiest 500 quid i ever made :-) xx
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 18, 2007....

    Good one, Kyle. I forgot about that. That's pretty funny though.

    And yes, I have a small child around, but she's busy watching Drake and Josh. She has a crush on Drake and doesn't like to be interrupted while looking at him.

    Miss Hinana......you are a closet neat freak who hides behind a mess. Good cover.

    Miss Diva I find that fascinating. You were an escort? That is a great story that I never would have guessed.

    Not that I know you well anyway, but I never would have guessed that for sure.

    Did you do it more than once?

  • Mr_Box said on Nov 18, 2007....

    Since I'm not first, I'll tell my little known fact now.

    I once faked a broken leg so I could get to the front of the line at Disneyland. I even had a fake cast and rented one of those Lark's you zoom around on.

    I know, I know. That's so wrong. But it was best Disneyland trip I ever took.

     

  • botoni said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Some here know this but it still isnt wide spread. I m a retired preacher.
  • destinydiva said on Nov 18, 2007....
    lol mr box!!!!!!!  that is a classic!!!!!  :-)

    me? actually I did it twice......  :-) I would have done it more but I met my ex husband :-)  I wouldnt do it now...  but I dont ever regret doing it then :-)

    ps my daughter loves drake and josh!! and has a crush on drake!! have you ever watched it with her? its sooo funny I love it...did you ever see the stuck in a helicopter episode and they knocked the pilot out????   I love it.....I think maybe I have my own crush on drake :-) he he xx
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....
    sometimes, i'm a bit of a prude. :>

    ed
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 18, 2007....

    Botoni.....I certainly didn't know that. Very interesting!

    Miss Diva.......if you hadn't of met your husband, then I guess you would have had an interesting career.

    I must admit that I do like Drake and Josh. The show is funny sometimes. And I've had to sit through the Drake and Josh go to Hollywood movie a thousand times.

    My daughter has Drake's CD too. It's actually not bad.

  • Mr_Box said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Ed, you are a prude? You're right, I wouldn't have guessed that. I hope you don't get offended by anything I say. Because the word prude doesn't fit me very well.
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....
    it's under very specific circumstances, i'll confess. :>

    ed
  • gingersoul said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Boxilicius...i like Drake and Josh too..me and my daughter love to watch the show....and Drake is going to grow up a hot guy for sure....lol...
     
    Well....i have few things in my dark closet.....:-)....
    But for now i guess nobody would imagine i have been arrested once.
     
    And another time i had to go on trial for having written an article about the mayor that he claimed wasn't accurate as it should have been...... dirty story....no proud of it....
     
    Oh, and talking about faking.....i faked my sister's wedding to have more vacation days from my office and fly to Italy....it worked....LOL....
  • the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 18, 2007....
    I'm wild and crazy in certain areas of life, befitting my Scorpio status. ;-)

    ~Infernal
  • CreativeWoman said on Nov 18, 2007....
    I can hit the center of a target with a rifle.

    CW
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....
    [note to self: do not piss off CW]

    :D

    ed
  • CreativeWoman said on Nov 18, 2007....
    You're funny, Ed.  I'm not a hunter by any means, but with any type of gun I'm a pretty good shot.  Don't worry.  I only point them at targets.  :-D

    CW
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....
    OK, CW: any time there's a question of who soulcasters want in a "survive apocalypse" team, i want you on mine!

    ed
  • CreativeWoman said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Ed,
    Ok..count me in.  I've been called Annie Oakley a time or two.  ;-)

    CW
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 18, 2007....
    awe. some. :D

    ed
  • nursecutie said on Nov 18, 2007....

    Jack your confession was funny!!! Horrible......but very funny anyway. You are naughty!

    Something about me.....I slept with a bear until I was in college! And I only stopped sleeping with him b/c I had a roomate and didn't want her to know. But I still have it! And sometimes when I was single and alone I would bring him out and snuggle up with him again.

    Embarrassing!!

    xxoo natalie xxoo

  • fearing said on Nov 18, 2007....
    Hmmmm.   I'm thinking.....
    Okay, the first thing pops into my head is from the mall this afternoon and inspired by your idea of meeting the president.  We were walking through the mall and there was a billboard size add for Hollister covering the spot a new store was going.  I looked up and realized I know the girl.  It was an odd moment.

    When the band Creed had the song "Higher" out, I spoke to the drummer on the phone while he was playing golf, and if you remember the original version of the movie Bruce Almighty - a real phone number to God was in the movie (but was changed later) - it turned out to be the real number to a pastor named Bruce - I know him too.
    I know those things aren't really about me but it is all I can come up with right now.

    As for things about me personally - I can draw fairly well but rarely do, I've had really bad nightmares since I was 2 or 3 and....I can think of some other things but nothing else I feel like sharing.
  • Fallyn said on Nov 18, 2007....
    i could survive in the local rainforest with no provisions..... (i'd need at least a flint though honestly)


  • PassionTraveler said on Nov 18, 2007....
    I was kidnapped by a parent at age 3 and taken some 6 states away. I was later found by the other parent with the help of a P.I. a few weeks later. To me, it was all a great adventure and all ended well, and we're all very close now.

    A few famous people I've met:
    • Ben Weissman: (composer for many of Elvis Presley's musicals) gave me a wedding present.
    • Bill Clinton: Met him during his first election during my journalism days
    • Louis Gossett Jr.: Met him during my journalism days
    • Forest Whitaker: Met him last year through my work
    • Derek Luke: Met him last year through my work
    With a few exceptions, for most everything else, I truly am an open book.

    PT
  • dailyachesandpains said on Nov 18, 2007....
    I sleep with my cell phone. 
    Why?  I fear that someone will break in and I won't be able to get to the house phone. 
     
    Stupid...I know.  I should rename my name to just "Paranoid"
     
    Daily
  • Fallyn said on Nov 18, 2007....
    daily. i also sleep with my cell phone.....*sigh* for fear i will miss a call or text. *sigh*
  • MissMimi said on Nov 19, 2007....
    CDub, I'm impressed!  That's awesome. 
     
    I had a pet alligator when I was a kid.  Well, not just me, all of us.  A real honest-to-God alligator.  My mom gave it away to someone who worked at the zoo when it got too big. 
  • bff said on Nov 19, 2007....
    i'm possibly in love with my very best friend and probably will never tell her due to the fact that i 1. don't want her to not feel the same and 2. don't want our great friendship to change.
  • travelr712 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    oh, the tragedy bff!
     
    i had a dream last night that i knew owen wilson, but he told me his name was devin. does that count?
     
    i did see richard simons walking through the gate area at the L.A. airport once. it was kinda funny. a bunch of us were sitting around at about 10pm waiting for the plane to unload and get flipped so we could board. 10 minutes after the last passenger got off, 8 guys in black suits came out of the jetway, the ones who look like tommy lee jones in 'men in black', surrounding richard, who was wearing that t-shirt and stripped shorts! we all just kinda stared, then when he was gone, we looked at eachother and started laughing. it was kinda cool actually.
  • Fallyn said on Nov 19, 2007....
    there is absolutely NOTHING you can do at a sighting of richard simmons than just laugh.
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 19, 2007....

    Great responses everyone. Thank you for playing.

    Ed, I assume you don't feel like elaborating your special prude inducing circumstances?

    Gingery, arrested and on trial? That's not something I would guess for sure. I wonder what you were arrested for?

    Drake is going to be quite the ladykiller someday. Actually he already is. I think the dude is like 20 now. Good job faking a wedding to get a vacation. That's funny.

    Ms. Infernal I would love to hear about some of your wild and crazy stories.

    Ms. CW you're hot with a rifle. That's a fun skill to have. Do you go target shooting a lot?

    Natty......you slept with a bear until college? Too cute. Kyle has a bear too. I'm sure you've seen it.

    He says he stopped sleeping with it when he was a kid, but I wouldn't be surprised if he kept it for longer too. Match made in heaven, you two.

    Fearing I'm sorry to hear about the nightmares. But you should draw something for us and show off your artistic talents.

    You should join Survivor, Fallyn. You could win a million dollars.

    Passion Traveler......kidnapped? Now that is an intriguing story. I'm glad it turned out okay in the end. What's Bill Clinton like? Is he cool?

    Ms. Daily.....when I go out of town, my wife sleeps with her cell phone too for the exact same reason.

    Miss Mimi you had an alligator? That is cool. How did that come about? Did your parents just find a baby one in a swamp and take it home?

    Bff.....wow. Well that's a tough spot to be in. I hope it works out.

    Travelr......you saw Richard Simmons? [laughs] That's funny. I met Billy Bob Thorton at  LAX once. Cool guy.

    He was playing in a band in his spare time and had just gotten back from NY. We hung at the bar for almost an hour. I'll never forget that.

     

     

  • silverwhisper said on Nov 19, 2007....
    mr box: you infer correctly. :>

    ed
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 19, 2007....
    Ed now you're forcing me to use my imagination as to what it would be. That could be scary....
  • Fallyn said on Nov 19, 2007....
    *laughing* if there is ever a survivor set in a temperate rainforest.......not a jungle one.....then i'll try out. *laughing*
  • Devin23 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was apart of a special forces team.
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 19, 2007....

    Fallyn, I'm sure they're bound to set Survivor in a temperate rainforest at some point. They're going to run out of exotic locales eventually.

    Devin for a second I thought you were going to say you piloted an X-wing fighter. But that's pretty exciting you were part of the special forces.

  • Devin23 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I did that too.  But crashed it in Dagaba.  Luke got all the hype and endorsements.
  • MissMimi said on Nov 19, 2007....
    MrB, we got the alligator from an uncle who at that time, traveled a lot.  He got it in Florida, but that's all I know about it.  It strikes me now that the poor little thing was probably suffering in too cold of a climate. 
  • katie_2u said on Nov 19, 2007....
    For some reason people, young and older, seem to like telling me their problems, and telling me personal things. It's kind of a joke with my family and friends how often it happens. The "secret" is that much of the time I don't really care that much about what they're telling me, that I don't have as much sympathy for them as they seem to think, or that I probably should have. 
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I'm late to the party, but here's something.  I have enough college credits for a minor in physical education.
     
    As for famous person sightings.  I have met Stephanie Powers, bumped shopping carts with Francis Ford Coppola, had the chance to me Robert Redford locksmithing but was too tired to take the job, passed Jack Nickelson on the sidewalk and sat right behind Alec Baldwin on a flight from Kauai to Oahu.
  • travelr712 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    yeah, box, i'd definately say an hour with bbt beats a laugh at richard symons any time! that must've been GREAT! you and kyle have the coolest things happen to you!
  • PassionTraveler said on Nov 19, 2007....
    Nice, U.I. I always loved Stephanie Powers. Too bad she's gone now.

    Mr. Box, Bill Clinton was very charismatic, & very articulate even with his Southern drawl, but then we were in the South when that happened, so the drawl was less noticeable. I can totally see how women would swoon, although I personally never did appreciate the type.

    He ran every day surrounded by Secret Service of course. One of our writers (that time it wasn't me) actually went jogging with him for a more personal interview. Turned out very well.

    Being news media, we had in-person and closer access than the common public. Secret Service was a hoot though. We were all searched, patted down, questioned and so forth before we were allowed near Clinton and our photographers had to shoot off a photo from each of our cameras to ensure we weren't packing any disguised heat.

    I had more conversation with Louis Gosset Jr., than Clinton,  who kept coming on to my friend and fellow journalist. We had a private interview after the event, where he kept saying she looked like "his good friend Mariah Carey" and how beautiful she was, yada yada yada. The irony is that my friend HATED Mariah Carey. It was the absolute worst compliment in her mind he could give her. LOL

    I'd say that with the flirtatious exceptions of Clinton and Lou Gosset Jr., the rest were as normal, personable and were genuinely nice people.

    PT
  • CreativeWoman said on Nov 19, 2007....
    Mr. Box,
    I don't target practice very often.  I just seem to have a knack for aiming and hitting the mark.  My nephew thinks I'm cool. It is one of those skills that surprises people.  It goes against my quiet demeanor, I guess.

    CW
  • sweet_cookie01 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    hmmm....
    I have a stamp collection....
    I use to have my own piano and took classes for 5 years...
    my once favorite color was white and i didnt have any colored shirts for 3 years!
  • travelr712 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    that's sweet, cookie... :-)
  • Mamie said on Nov 19, 2007....
    cool post!! Hey I was arrested too, in my teens, we were having some beers and apparently we were trespassing...oops! I wonder where the hell that was? Luckily the beer was gone and the bottles stashed coz we never got caught for that!
  • rupert7 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    My computer desktop (screen) contains only a wallpaper and the recycle bin. Everything on my PC is 100% organized, neat and tidy! And yet the literal desktop is always covered with that much crap you can hardly see the computer!( I do maintain a free space for mouse movement!)
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 19, 2007....

    Devin next time you're in Dagobah, say hi to yoda for me.

    Miss Mimi snagging an alligator is certainly a unique souvenir to bring back from Florida!

    katie......I guess sometimes it's enough that you listen if even if you don't really care. As long as they don't know that.

    Ms. Ironic you've ran into quite a few people. Did you ever think about being a PE teacher or something?

    Travelr.....I did enjoy meeting Mr. Thornton quite a lot. He's really just a regular guy who likes to talk about music and shit like that. It was a great experience.

    Passion Traveler......I like Bill Clinton. He was my favorite president. He seems like he'd be a pretty nice guy to talk to.

    Ms. CW I think it's cool you're a quiet person who can shoot an apple off my head if you want. It would be surprising!

    Sweet Cookie I once wore nothing but black for years. I've broadened my horizons a bit now.

    Delinquent Mamie......I've had some brushes with the law myself. But I always managed to talk my way out of it. Lucky me!

    Rupert......I don't have much on my desktop either. I hate all those icons. But my desk is a disaster area too.

  • moyz said on Nov 20, 2007....
    i keep a very detailed diary ..and write in it everyday....it's amazing what one can read there...but failt o notice anywhere else...even as i blog...and that strikes me as real funny...
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 20, 2007....
    I'd be too mean as a PE teacher (or a trainer for that matter).  I have taught after school enrichment classes for elementary school kids teaching jujitsu.  None of which pays enough to cover my bills.
  • TaintedAtBirth said on Nov 20, 2007....
    I like to close the doors, turn of the lights, shut down the TV, computer and everything else.
    Turn on my stack and plug my guitar in and just let 'er rip.
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 21, 2007....

    moyz......you keep a written diary as well as a blog? That's a lot of writing. Do you put the same stuff in both?

    Ms. Ironic I doubt you're too mean to be a PE teacher. In fact, I've never run across a nice one before.

    But I bet you are too pretty to be a PE teacher. At least at my old school. Let us not speak of the women who taugh Phys Ed there.

    Tainted.....you play guitar? Awesome.

  • crybabylu said on Nov 22, 2007....
     
     silverwhisper......... sometimes, i'm a bit of a prude.   -- No fair, It was supposed to be something we wouldn't have guessed...hahaha!  just kidding, you ed..LOL, dee.

     

    As for me, a few people know that I am a retired truck driver (I have posted it a time or two)  but, usually when I tell people that, they say, you look to small and frail to do something like that.

  • soulchaser said on Nov 23, 2007....

    I can learn a new language really really fast.  I know, its so wierd but its my secret.  However once I stop speaking on a regualr basis you can forget it. 

    My mind is like a Quentin Tarrantino movie.  I think things on really magnified sick levels.  For example,   In an argument instead of worrying about what is said  my mind is flipping through how this would look in a script for a movie.  (sick, I know)

  • pookiedookie said on Nov 24, 2007....
    What most people don't know about me is that I am a preacher's kid.  But then again, they say that they are the eneryest kids so maybe they would guess that about me.....hehe
  • minniemouse said on Nov 24, 2007....
    Hmmm....I've done some very naughty things.....very few people know, and no one who knows me would ever guess.....but then I like to keep people guessing......   ;-)  Minnie
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 24, 2007....

    crybabylu you were a truck driver? I think it always surprises people when women are truck drivers. Especially if you're small. Did you enjoy that job?

    soulchaser......if your mind is a Tarantino movie are you writing a script? If you can learn Japanese I bet you could make an awesome Tarantinoesque movie like Kill Bill.

    pookiedookie......preachers kid, huh? Did you rebel a lot or were you a model child?

    minnie.....naughty things? You have my attention. Too bad you didn't elaborate!

  • soulchaser said on Nov 24, 2007....

    Mr Box....Believe it or not Im working on 3 scripts  and two books simultaneously.  isnt that sick?.  Sigh...If only I had the Tarrantino money to do it 100% fill time. 

    I'll give you a hint about one of the scripts im working on....One is about the first book that was ever written in this world.  (supposedly, of course). 

    And by the way, Kill Bill rocked! I loved every asskickin' minute of it.  Plus it was wildly hilarious.  If only I had a Japenese friend then I could get the ball rolling on my new best language.  sigh.....

  • Mr_Box said on Nov 24, 2007....

    soulchaser.....3 scripts and two books. You sound like a lot of people I know. I wish you much luck with it. It's a tough business to crack into.

    Kill Bill was definitely kick ass. I'm a big Tarantino fan. Get busy learning Japanese and you could have a hit in two countries.

  • minniemouse said on Nov 24, 2007....
    Well, Mr. Box...I said I like to keep people guessing......I will tell ya one thing....I won 3rd place in a wet T-shirt contest!!!!!!  :-D  Minnie
  • rddryan said on Nov 25, 2007....
    I am gay. hahahahaha
  • Mr_Box said on Nov 25, 2007....

    Minnie you won 3rd place in a wet t-shirt contest?! I am impressed. Highly. Now THAT is not something I would guess.

    rddryan.....are you gay? Or was that a joke? Your hahahaha threw me off. Either way, since I don't know you, you're right, I would never have guessed.

  • gingersoul said on Nov 25, 2007....

    Boxy.......i noticed i didn't answer to you question ...you wanted to know why i had been arrested...

    Well...it happened when i was a politic activist in a feminist group in Italy....we had asked the City to donate to our movement a vacant building with the project of opening a women shelter and a health clinic for indigent women with kids...a pretty noble project, if you ask. Naturally the City denied the iea.

    We knew that center was needed so we decide to occupy the place anyway. We organized the occupation asking the help for food and neecssity and many other women came to support us from other cities too. We were at our third day of the occupation and i was in my watch duty.

    Each of us had to patrol the streets to warn when the police would have arrived so the ones with families and other obbligations would have had the time to leave the building...A friend of mine warned me that the police was coming so i run inside and screamed to get ready. As i was going down the stairsto leave the place they sprang open the entrance door  and dragged us outside. 

    I got arrested but luckily they released me and the other 30 because they didn't want to make a huge deal of the thing..too much bad publicity for the CVity...but still they wanted to set an example and so they released us kept in jail and put on trial the seven who refused to leave the building...

    I got my face published in first page between two policemen....my father didnt react very well when he saw it....lol...

     

  • Mr_Box said on Nov 25, 2007....

    That is quite a story, Gingery. You were arrested for a noble cause though. I like that in a person. We all have to believe in something and you did.

    I'm glad that they let you go though. Even if your picture was in the paper. I can just imagine your father's face!

  • gingersoul said on Nov 25, 2007....

    Boxy.......i think the same...one must be ready to the extreme consequences if they believing in something....

    Naturally we went underneath their jail windows to sing to them our songs, we brought them any stuff they might need, some babysat their kids....we supported them as much as we could...they got fined at the end of the trial and we collected the money for them...it has been a very fullflling experience..

    It took almost 10 years by now my city has a women shelter and health center as well...

    Well..isn't ironic that i turned to be a reporter years later? I was the one putting people on a first page.....lol... ...

  • pookiedookie said on Nov 25, 2007....
    Mr. Box - I was pretty enery, and still am.  My dad was a fanatic, I think, but I still loved him.  He has since passed.
  • moyz said on Nov 26, 2007....
    Mr. Box...i write pretty much the same stuff...but i think my diary has all the juicy titbits...lol

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