Hello and happy timezones, kind friends! I have greatly enjoyed your responses to my Get to Know You posts.
So, it’s time. Come sit on my porch for a spell. Tea, lemonade and refreshments will be served shortly.
Here are 3 questions! Let’s go!
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───── ⋆⋅Round #104⋅⋆ ─────
1. If you had to hire one item from your junk drawer, what job would it get?
2. What’s the most harmless thing that has startled you recently?
3. If you had to give a pep talk to an inanimate object today, which one would need it most?
───── ⋆⋅Here are my answers⋅⋆ ─────
- I’d hire the mystery key that doesn’t open anything. It can run security, since it already acts like it knows more than I do.
- A dust bunny startled me when it drifted out from under the couch. It moved like it had intentions.
- The little lamp my grandfather made would need the pep talk. It still works, but the shade has survived several feline attacks and leans like it’s tired of trying. I’d tell it it’s doing a good job anyway.
And now it’s your turn. If you’d rather just read, that’s perfectly fine. A quick hello would be lovely, and quiet lurkers are always welcome. xo
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Nice to learn more about you.
Chip clip to clamp people’s mouths shut. If that doesn’t work, the meat mallet to knock them unconscious.
The egg slicer. I know we don’t use you often but when we need you, you’re there.
I’d hire the corkscrew to open my wine bottles.
Brown pods that blow in from the tree outside our balcony look like bugs.
I’d give a pep talk to my old coffee maker praising its performance and to keep up the good work.
Great questions, and I loved your answers, Kymber.
Intriguing questions, and I loved your answers, Kymber. I can’t think of anything for the first two, but would also give a lamp a pep talk. It’s a floor lamp with a movable head you can position in different ways. Lately, it just droops.
I liked your answers. Here’s mine:
https://yvensong.com/2026/09/17/kymbers-get-to-know-you-104/
Cool answers, mine are here: https://jamfn.blogspot.com/2026/09/getting-to-know-you-or-me-or-someone.html
Haha, I have the same key in my junk drawer, next to the screw that won’t tell me where it came from! Maggie
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Here’s my take Kymber 💜
https://magz70-qytix.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/get-to-know-you-round-104/
Interesting questions Kymber! Here’s my response
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/get-to-know-you-104/
I’d have to agree with you on that mystery key. There are two on a ring in the key dish on my desk, and no one has a clue what they go to. I’ve kept them thinking they’ll go to some mystery door that will suddenly appear some day.
Round #104
Our junk drawer is positively overflowing with old, or lost, or obsolete, or damaged, or spare, or, or or, computer and device bits and bobs — wires/cords/adaptors/etc. I’d hire one of them (wouldn’t matter which), immediately promote him (all that junk has to be male, right?!?) to corral the many (many!!!) tech odds and sods, assess their suitability to remain with the company and dispatch the rest to electronics heaven.
The most harmless thing that has startled me recently is Cam (and y’all can stop giggling now!). Due to his Plantar Fasciitis, he is now wearing Crocs’ “Mellow Recovery” sandals as slippers. In them, he moves silently around the place and, many times a day, has scared the bejesus out of me.
Easiest question of all to answer. My iPhone, which is a relic and which I’ve no interest and no intention of changing. I hardly ever turn it on (only when I’m out alone) and, when I do, it is highly uncooperative. I can no longer hold a charge, many apps no longer work on it, Apple doesn’t support it any longer (are you getting a sense of how old the poor old gal is?), but I do want to stick with her so I’d give Miss iPhone the sweetest, most loving pep talk ever.
Thank you Kymber, this was a lot of fun today. xx
Such fun questions! You’re answers were great, especially the dust bunny one! Here are mine:
https://wp.me/p3RE1e-pab
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Your answers are great fun, Kymber
Very nice.
If you had to hire one item from your junk drawer, what job would it get? The bottle opener. It would have to stand by and fetch a Voo Doo Ranger on demand.
What’s the most harmless thing that has startled you recently? Not so harmless, but a black widow spider
If you had to give a pep talk to an inanimate object today, which one would need it most? My leaf blower. The season is about to begin, and I know how tired it got last year. I think all it needs is a confidence boost to see another season through.
Love your answers. I laughed out loud with the dust bunny one.
Have a fabulous day and rest of the week, Kymber. Love and hugs. ♥
You gave such charming answers, Kymber. <3
If you had to hire one item from your junk drawer, what job would it get?
The only junk drawer is in my kitchen and full of things I use but have no logical place. Misfit tools. Maybe I’d hire the pretty coasters that live in there, to lift some of the little potted plants that get lost behind bigger ones. In fact that’s not a bad idea. 🙂
What’s the most harmless thing that has startled you recently?
Sometimes bunnies blend so well that when I’m walking to the car they give a startle.
If you had to give a pep talk to an inanimate object today, which one would need it most? I’m not sure if a knee qualifies as an inanimate object, because it is animated by me, but it really needs some encouragement and has been demanding attention quite loudly.
Good morning, and happy timezones, Kymber!! I’m actually getting to this one on time! I do apologize for being so lax in my blog-reading, of late. I love your answers, and feel confident that mine won’t even come close, but I’ll give it a try.
1 After searching through our two (yes, two) junk drawers, I decided to hire the unused Glade Plug-in that was sitting in there, to keep the living room smelling fresher
2 I’m going to give two answers. The first one actually gave me a good start, physically. Last Sunday afternoon, I reached for a hymnal that was on a shelf in the study that is attached to a wall. The shelf immediately fell off the wall. It didn’t hurt anything, though, so it was harmless. The second thing was an amusing surprise. Yesterday morning, I was getting my coffee, and I just happened to glance into the room next to the kitchen, which has two recliners and a bookshelf behind them. Sort of a reading nook, I guess. Anyway, sticking out from under one of the recliners was Willow’s (Maine Coon, 14.5 months old, 12.6 pounds) tail sticking out from under the front of the recliner. How she got under there, I have no clue. She’s liquid, I think.
3 I would give a pep talk to the shelf that fell off the wall, Sunday. I would tell it . . . wait for it . . . HANG IN THERE! (ba dum dum).
Have a blessed day, my dear friend. ❤️
Dust bunnies are “evil”. I hear ya! lol
https://sillyfrogsusan.blog/2026/09/17/get-to-know-you-9-17-26-one-more-chance/
Hahaha, Kymber! Loved your answers!
Here is mine:
https://aptivisjoyfulcorner.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/get-to-know-you-sept-17th-2026-104/
I loved your answers
Especially the first one. That made me chuckle.
I don’t have a junk drawer. Never have. So, unable to answer.
A harmless thing that startled me was when I was walking to work this morning. I saw a shadow so I felt that someone would be behind me. I was just walking under a bridge at the point. Once I passed the bridge, I quickly looked back to see who it was. It was a woman. And like me, she was at first cautious until she realised I it was someone she has observed walking regular the same way we both walk. But her turning off much sooner than me. So we had a quick chat until she was at the point to cross the road to where she needed to be.
I can’t think of anything that would need a pep talk. Maybe there is an inanimate object that would like to give me a pep talk instead.
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