so is my oldest daughter and believe me she was a lot more herself when she stopped trying to hide it to anybody
Most incoming calls I get on my cell phone are robocalls and from telemarketers. This is why I never pick up any calls unless they're one of my contacts or a business call I'm anticipating.
I pretty much only pick up when my dad calls. I have a special VeggieTales ringtone for that purpose. (I used to be a huge fan of VeggieTales...until they sold out. )
Have you placed your number on the National Do Not Call Registry? That doesn't stop all the spam calls, but I've found it cuts down on them considerably.
Remember The Word from the 90s? My sister got four tickets for it in 1993 and we went to London for the filming. Great night and I'm on camera for a few seconds. It was the first and only time I got a train and night bus in to London and then home in the same night. 05:10 in the cream Miami Vice jacket looking unimpressed with Penn's low brow gag.
As a pre-teen, I taught myself to read upside down. I had heard that spies could do that and wanted to see if I could manage it. It's really not that hard, in a way we already have that skill potentially all you have to do is get used to seeing the letters and the words that way. I don't do it often but I never lost it, once in a great while I read my newspaper upside down and talk about the articles in it just for laughs. People who don't know me think I am faking it... That's how I won a few bets.
I can write backwards, IE mirror writing. When I learned that Leo DaVinci did this and was a lefty I decide to give it a shot. For a lefty it is not that hard, you need to think about it.
As a teen I learned different alphabets other than the Latin one that we all use: Among them: Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew I also learned a little of the languages using these alphabets. My broken Arabic is really quite good, my grammar stinks but the vocabulary is sufficient for me to talk about a variety of practical things. I've often gone to Arab countries on vacation and when I am there I like to haggle, just for the fun of it. If you don't haggle with the local merchants not only will you pay for things a lot more than you need to but they won't respect you. They'll think that you're a big dope, a mark.
Wi not trei a holiday in the Kollective this yer? See the loveli cubes... The wønderful subspace communication system... And mani interesting drones.
On local BBSs in the '90s I went by "Phoenix" which is still in my sig. I figured that would be too common on the wider net. So Tesral, an important Phoenix in my D&D game.