Interesting choice of topics for last week’s Friday Five. I told you I would be late this week.

1. What was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you?
“You are so nice. If I weren’t married already I’d marry you because you are so nice.” That has stuck with me since she said it, about 15 years ago. Truthfully, I would have married her if she wasn’t married. I was really taken by not only her beauty, but her charm and personality. Unfortunately, if we had married, the racial difference would have been met with hostile distaste from my parents (she is African-American while I am WASP).

2. What was the meanest thing anyone has ever said to you?
“You’re ugly and I’d rather kick you in the balls then call you a friend.” Which she did not long afterward. The girl was not as nice a person as I thought and I had to fight hard not to hate her after that remark.

3. At times, lots of people never tell us what they are really thinking. Who is the one person that you would really like to know what they are thinking (as far as how they feel about you), and why?
I can pick any one person, but I can think of six who I would like know that information, but I can’t name them since the all know about this blog. But let me say this to the six, I do love you.

4. What was the nicest thing you have ever said to anyone?
That would be subjective to the person to whom you say it. Sometimes a simple thank you is remembered. The thing I would say from my own viewpoint would be the nicest thing I’ve said was “you make the world a wonderful place to live in.”

5. What was the meanest thing you have ever said to anyone?
On occasion I do have a really mean temper and can say things I regret the minute I utter them. The worse I was when I called a good friend of mine “a whoring bitch” for some trivial matter that I don’t even remember what it was. I do remember that it was not her fault and that she had nothing to do with it, she just happened to be in the line of fire at the time. It took me months of pleading, begging, and penitence to win back her friendship. We managed to patch things up and even became closer. And she has learned not to be around me when I have to take certain medications.

Do your Friday Five.

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