Hah yes, core childhood memory: following dad as he walked an entire string of lights, swapping one bulb at a time until we found the dud

God we were all so frickin hungry by the time it was done. She never lived it down.

(to be fair, someone should have raised a protest earlier, we were all fool babies, but we TRUSTED HER! 😂)

But wait! What about the main dish, the ham? Don't worry, sis says, it's precooked, the instructions say 15 minutes. Okaaay...

We put it in for 15 minutes. We take it out.
It is nowhere NEAR hot.
We look at the packaging:

15 minutes PER POUND?!

Congratulations!

Or if that's what some readers want... there's plenty out there, I'll be doing my thing for my like-minded people over here XD

It's a tough balance! I think people like to be intrigued/invested and that can come from a dilemma, a mystery, anticipation of something good, feelings of dread (I don't want to walk into this funeral and face my family!) all sorts of things that aren't car chases

Yeah the biggest stumbling block I see lately is a book starting with a movie action scene. No clue who anyone is. Just descriptions of fight moves or explosions or running without the noise and spectacle that makes it fun in a movie. I zone right out.

Ooh good post. I concur!

!! Oh that's great

Oh, I haven't seen that one! It sounds up my alley 😂

Haha that's awesome

He's finally going to know why I mutter "time to harvest another lesbian"!

Family members knocking on the coffin and you briefly rise from the dead to yell through the lid: "FIVE ZERO ONE ONE SEVEN TWO"

I always love hearing how varied everyone's reasons and approaches are!

After my years of refusing to share, it was nerve-wracking but ultimately really rewarding to connect with people once I did! Go figure 😄

The energy, yes! I can't get that verve when I overthink it. I just have to excitedly push it all out and then deal with the result