The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Aeson]

We need topics here people. The hive is dying.
I'll take a page from Dog Moon:

1. Holiday gifts: what do you want and what are you giving?
2. What are your favorite foods? (appetizers through dessert)
3. Do you have any recurring nightmares? (I want to know if I am the only crazy one)
4. Have you ever had a brush with death?

Discuss

1. Still working on the gift thing.
2. Almost any food is good.
3. I don't have nightmares very often, not since I was a kid. I wonder why.
4. I wrecked my car a few years ago. I drove a Jeep Cherokee and I flipped from one side of a 4 lane divided road to the other. It also seemed to be facing the other direction when it stopped. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt which may have saved my life. The roof over the drivers seat was caved in and the seat broke so I was tossed to the back. I rolled around in the truck along with it and hit the tailgate in the back. I'm not sure if I blacked out because I remember rolling around in the truck and then coming to a stop. I was shaken by it but after I had time to think about it, I said "That could have been fun ride."

Another guy (former classmate I didn't know) had done something very similar on the same road. He wore his seatbelt and was still ejected and died. My friends and I saw him after it happened. The mans body was twisted. He's rear end and head were facing the same direction.

 

[Aeson]

Did I forget to ask permission to go somewhere again.......

I was out shopping.

Yes you did. Shame on you.

You don't need to ask permission. I was curious.

Did you buy something for us? The collective requires gifts.

 

[Aurora]

I guess I'll answer my own questions

1. Holiday gifts: what do you want and what are you giving?
I want a vacation away from life. Not gonna happen. I have done almost no shopping for Christmas as of yet, and other than Kylee (because shopping for a 2 yrd old is easy), I haven't a clue what to buy anyone.

2. What are your favorite foods? (appetizers through dessert)
I love seafood: shrimp cocktail for appetizers and lobster, crab, whitefish and shark for main courses. Although, now I know I am not allowed to have shark anymore so that's out the window. I love those Samoa girl scout cookies you know the ones with the chocolate and coconut. Yum! And I love anything I can eat with sour cream (as long as it doesn't have onions, peppers, ot tomatoes)

3. Do you have any recurring nightmares? (I want to know if I am the only crazy one)
Yes, in fact, I am fairly convinced I know how I am going to die.

4. Have you ever had a brush with death?
Let's see:
I almost died of salmonilla poisoning when I was 16.
I was pulled out of the ocean (I got caught in a rip tide) when I was 14.
My ex tried to kill me when I was 19.
I was kidnapped when I was little, so if they had gotten away with me god knows if I would still be alive or not.

 

[Aurora]

Yes you did. Shame on you.

You don't need to ask permission. I was curious.

Did you buy something for us? The collective requires gifts.

I was teasing.
No, I didn't buy the collective anything. Sorry. I bake cookies in a couple of weeks, i can send the collective cookies

 

[Aeson]

4. Have you ever had a brush with death?
Let's see:
I almost died of salmonilla poisoning when I was 16.
I was pulled out of the ocean (I got caught in a rip tide) when I was 14.
My ex tried to kill me when I was 19.
I was kidnapped when I was little, so if they had gotten away with me god knows if I would still be alive or not.

Holy cow. You were kidnapped? Was it a molester? How did you get away?

 

[Aeson]

I was teasing.
No, I didn't buy the collective anything. Sorry. I bake cookies in a couple of weeks, i can send the collective cookies

Yippy. *cookie monster voice* COOOOKKKIEEE ME LIKE COOKIE.

 

[Aurora]

4. I wrecked my car a few years ago. I drove a Jeep Cherokee and I flipped from one side of a 4 lane divided road to the other. It also seemed to be facing the other direction when it stopped. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt which may have saved my life. The roof over the drivers seat was caved in and the seat broke so I was tossed to the back. I rolled around in the truck along with it and hit the tailgate in the back. I'm not sure if I blacked out because I remember rolling around in the truck and then coming to a stop. I was shaken by it but after I had time to think about it, I said "That could have been fun ride."

Jesus, no wonder you effed up your back on that one. You got lucky with the "no seatbelt" thing helping you out though. That is normally not the case in accidents. Although it does happen every now and then. DShai knows a guy who was in a Wrangler (passenger side) and his buddy driving rolled it and it ended up on the hood. The guy DShai knows wasn't wearig his seatbelt and when the jeep rolled, he was thrown under the dash. When the car stopped, he climbed out (half delirious but fine) and said "I'll get help" and walked away when he got back with help he realized hs 3 friends no longer had heads.

 

[Aeson]

Jesus, no wonder you effed up your back on that one. You got lucky with the "no seatbelt" thing helping you out though. That is normally not the case in accidents. Although it does happen every now and then. DShai knows a guy who was in a Wrangler (passenger side) and his buddy driving rolled it and it ended up on the hood. The guy DShai knows wasn't wearig his seatbelt and when the jeep rolled, he was thrown under the dash. When the car stopped, he climbed out (half delirious but fine) and said "I'll get help" and walked away when he got back with help he realized hs 3 friends no longer had heads.

I climbed out of my car and went to the nearest house I could find. I was stumbling and couldn't see all that well (didn't help that was 2:30am). I knocked on the door and didn't get an answer. I went back to the road and a truck had come along. He asked if I was ok and offered to take me to find a phone. At that point a car came up and they had a phone and they called my parents. I didn't go to the hospital because I didn't have insurance nor could I pay for it. I actually called in sick that night and went in to work the next night. My back problem got worse and eventually I had to take an entire week off because I couldn't get out of bed. I've had a couple of spells where I had to stay in bed for a week or so. My back seems to be doing better now but I still have pain. I just try to avoid things that will lay me up.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Dar har da hur gurg hyun

 

[Aurora]

Holy cow. You were kidnapped? Was it a molester? How did you get away?

It's really not that interesting of a story. I was around 3. My grandmother and my mother went shopping and took me with them. They were doing the whole flipping through a clothes rack and turned around to check on me and I wasn't there. So, of course, they began screaming for help. Soon, security for the store and mall security were combing the store and mall for me. My grandmother was running through aisles of the dept store frantically looking for me. She says that she got to a center aisle and turned to run to the middle of the store and something told her to turn around. She turned around and I was being put into a car. She ran outside, threw open the door and yanked me out. She asked the driver what she was doing with her granddaughter and the lady said "I was just gonna take her for a ride." She said it was an adult female in the drivers' seat and the person putting me in the car was actually a girl around 12 yrs old. Reason: children will go with another child before they'll go with a strange adult. So, some whacked out kidnapper trained some kid to help them kidnap other kids. Who knows what they would have done with me. I was pretty cute when I was little. There is quite a black market for children, unfortunately.