Ask Henrietta

[Cute Tink]

Do you make lists for other people?

 

[Wren]

No

 

[Cute Tink]

If you found out that a close friend or family member committed a serious crime, would you report them to the police?

 

[Wren]

Define "serious crime". (My family is complicated. Plus, I don't trust cops or our justice system. So, I can't give an easy "yes".)

 

[Cute Tink]

Let's go with robbed a bank. And would it make a difference if they caused someone to be hospitalized for more than a month?

 

[Wren]

Any crime that involves someone getting hurt makes it very serious to me and I would report it....though probably anonymously and maybe refuse to testify.

 

[Cute Tink]

If you found $10,000 on the street, what would you do?

 

[Wren]

I'm assuming it's in a wallet, so I'd try to find out who the wallet belongs to and have it returned to them.

If it's in a rolled up wad, I don't know. I'm too paranoid to just keep it. But handing it over the the police just feels stupid to me. I mean, they aren't going to know who it belongs to and would probably just have fun with it. Maybe I'd buy a pen that shows if it's real or not, like bank tellers and cashiers have. That amount of money is considered suspicious to the government and I'd have to fill out a form if I deposited it, so I wouldn't want to do that. I'm not sure. Thankfully, I'll probably never have this problem.

 

[Cute Tink]

Nice honesty. I don't know that I would handle it any differently if I was put in that situation.

If you were a man for one day, what would you do?

 

[Wren]

Well, first I'd have to explain to my husband how this even happened. I don't really know. I can't imagine doing anything all that different from what I do now.

 

[Cute Tink]

If you had to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose?

 

[Wren]

I'd rather not choose. (I'm super paranoid about questions like this. )

 

[Cute Tink]

If it were an option, would you want to enhance any of your senses?

 

[Wren]

Yes. I'd like to enhance all of them, except smell for now. My sense of smell is already a little enhanced due to pregnancy and it makes grocery shopping a little difficult.

I'd especially like to have better vision. I'm near-sighted (and have been since I was 10/11) and not wearing glasses would be nice, but I don't have the money or bravery for laser correction surgery.

 

[Cute Tink]

The surgery isn't that bad. It's over really quick, although I admit I was terrified at the time.

Do you have any strange talents (like being able to fold your eye lids over)?

 

[Wren]

No, I do not.

 

[Cute Tink]

Have you settled on baby names yet?

 

[Wren]

No. I have names that I kind of like, but I'm a name nerd, so that's nothing. All of the names I like, there is at least one thing about it that I don't like. But I have plenty of time to come up with the right name. (And I say "I" because I'm giving the first name and my husband is picking the middle name.)

 

[Cute Tink]

That's an option I never thought of before. If you have another, are you picking the middle and him the first?

 

[Wren]

No, this is the way it would always be. My husband is Chinese and doesn't care about American/Western names at all. And we agree that on the child's birth certificate should be an American/Western first name, since we are raising the child in the U.S. But we also want the child to have a Chinese name because most of his family does not speak English and are all in China. His family will be calling the child by his/her Chinese middle name. I don't know enough about Chinese names (it's way more complicated than picking a name from a book) to pick one and I like the idea of him being part of the naming process.