I found a list called “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data“. So I’m gonna post a few, and see what happens.
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
What was the first thing you bought with your own money?
Death ray. I used it to take over Cleveland. It was in all the papers.
Wait… no, it was a Hershey bar.
Figured I’d need something to celebrate taking over Cleveland.
Early 1975. I was 10 years old, going on 11. I had a wallet for no real reason, but had $10 in it that I had received as a Christmas gift. Couldn’t find the wallet to save my life. Mom and Grandma were going shopping to the mall and were asking if I wanted to go. Sitting on the orange couch*, I just happened to push my hand down between the cushions and found my wallet! I went with mom and Grandma and bought Elton John’s Greatest Hits that has been released only a couple months before. (and even had change after)
*(We had an orange couch and avocado carpeting. The 70s were colored orange and avocado.)
“The 70s were colored orange and avocado.”
Avocado refrigerator and orange-and-tan shag carpeting.
An Ebonite Gyro 15 lb. bowling ball, fit to my hand, with my name etched into it above the finger holes. Used it to finish second in a regional tournament that would have earned a trip to Washington DC and a shot at a scholarship, if I wasn’t such a loser…it’s in a landfill now…
Hookers and blow man, hookers and blow.
The first thing I can remember buying were Roller Blades when I was seven, back when they were still awesome(early 90s). It felt like it took forever to save from birthday money and odd chores but they were worth it. I was the first of my friends to get a pair, which was a rare occurrence that made it feel even better that I had saved for them myself. I believe I still have them tucked away in a box somewhere.
Late sixties, maybe the fifth grade, I bought a Taj Mahal 45 record at the Ben Franklin “Five and Dime” store. Got home and hated, just hated that record. Wish I remembered what the songs were because I certainly appreciate much of his music today. Small town Elkton, Va., I got to be Opie Taylor for a while before the real world intruded.
You have to ask? Have we met?
Starkist or Chicken of the Sea?