We used to play a lot of the alphabet game while driving places when I was a kid. Of course, it was terribly difficult to find signage with words starting in "x". We had to make a few rule changes - to allow the "X" of a railroad crossing to suffice and we also kept our eyes peeled for things like school or pedestrian crossings. Why? Because they'd say something like School X-Ing. I had no idea that was some abbreviation for crossing for years. I got in the habit of calling them "exings". My aunt was a 5th grade teacher and just thought this habit of mine was hysterical. Never quite understood that using "x" for random words thing before...
As for other X words - I can tell you that I am way to confused about my right and left to ever play xylophone and x-acto knives scare the bejesus out of m and I haven't had a whole lot of x-rays in my life beyond the dentist and the annual mammograms.
Can't believe we've almost made it through the A to Z challenge!
Cute funny story for X. I'm trying to visit all the A-Z Challenge Blogs in April. My alphabet is at myqualityday.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteIf you can get through all multi-thousand of the A to Z Challengers, I am so impressed!!! Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteWow! Lucky you - not many xrays beyond the dental and mamogram - where did I go wrong? Way too many xrays! and, how funny! I readily admit that the left and the right thing still confuses me - were I to get divorced, I would be in big trouble as I now depend on the wedding ring to help me figure that out!
ReplyDeleteSo we also share right/left dyslexia (my pet term for it)??? As I always say when I am giving directions - if I'm talking with my hands, follow my hands! Way too often I say emphatically "turn right" and gesture to the left. Follow the hands.
DeleteI am still not convinced that I understand Xmas! I can't believe this means the month of April is just about over!
ReplyDeleteI always called railroad & school crossings "exings" too. ;)
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