Fwenchys

*Guy Frenchys is a Canadian secondhand clothing store. Our parents took us there a lot.

Gagging.

I have an abnormally strong gag reflex, I guess.
I even went to the Doctor about it once, he said it was psychological. 

Molly and Geoff also gag really easily.  We gag when we're tired, we gag when we're really hungry, we gag when we're really full, we gag when we're too hot, we gag at noises and smells, textures and tastes, and sometimes sights. 

Mushy bananas, eggplant, custard, mayo, the noise of spaghetti being twirled in sauce- I'm practically gagging while thinking about them.


When we were kids Geoff had a friend that smacked his mouth a lot when he ate.  It made Geoff gag so much that this friend was rarely invited to stay for meals.  The one time that I can remember him having dinner with us, we were eating spaghetti.  That is a double combo of disgusting noises- so Geoff banished him to the basement where he could smack his lips to his heart's content.

If one of our cats barfs, I will gag even if Zan cleans it up and I'm nowhere near it. So generally Zan can tell when there's cat barf somewhere by the noise of me gagging in the next room.

This is sure to come up in future posts, and has already come up before (http://thatwouldberude.blogspot.com/2011/03/at-work-facial-hair.html )

So just know that we can't help it. It's psychological.

Genetics

Our Mom is shy.

Our Dad is the opposite of shy.

 

Dunsworthism- Silence Fillers

Dunsworths, when together, don't like a minute of silence to pass.  Especially not at the dinner table.

These are some of the nonsense things we say to fill in that pesky silence.

Fwowa

Molly and Emily,  when they were just little.

Vacuum Cleaners

When my little sister Molly was a kid she was terrified of dustballs. She called them "Woollies" and always shrieked when she saw them. 

 

She must have thought that they were scary bugs or monsters- and she really hated them.  Even scarier to Molly was the beast that ATE the woowys- the vacuum cleaner.

 

In public, Molly was shy and didn't like making scenes because it meant that people would "wook" at her. 
At Sears one day Molly finally had to face her biggest fear- and in public!

Lies

The Three Bears