* For my height, my legs are comparatively long and my arms comparatively short, so I've never been able to touch my toes without bending my knees a little.
* Like Karen, my second toe is longer than my big toe. I didn't like this until I learned Anna Pavlova (famous Russian ballerina) had the same "problem".
* I hate rings, can't stand having them on my fingers, so I didn't have a wedding ring when I married.
* I forget people's names within 1 second of hearing them but can remember the details of conversations for weeks.
* I have a green thumb and a natural talent for garden design, though I don't use either now that I'm so intensely involved in fostering cats.
* I've never known what I wanted to do as a career, and I'm close to retirement age so it's no use figuring it out now.
* I learned to read easily and have been a reader since age 5. I'll read anything - care repair manuals, phone directories, cereal packets, etc. rather than read nothing.
* I am somewhat afraid of electricity and it's the only type of home repair I won't try to do myself.
* I find most social situations fairly easy to deal with but I'm inclined to find most people boring very quickly (and I accept that I must bore most people).
* While I have adjusted to most American grammar rules, I cannot bring myself to put the period inside the quotation marks or brackets/parentheses.
* I have a very quirky sense of humor and enjoy word play.
* When I was 20, I spent an entire year reading no other literature except plays.
* I once had 5 boyfriends at the same time, just to see if I could do it. Now I'd rather spend the evening with my cats than go out on a date.
* My favorite fruits are raspberries, Bosc pears, figs and ataulfo mango. My favorite vegetables are parsnips and leeks.