Though I’ve only been blogging for four months, some of the emails I’ve received have displayed pretty acute powers of observation when it comes to Depot Dad’s personality. Maybe I’m revealing more between the lines than I realize. Not only that, but this blog has also recently reached several people from my distant, long ago past, in that mythical, mysterious land called Omaha. Maybe they have an unfair advantage when it comes to knowing me. But that would only be if I hadn’t changed much since I was sixteen.

So I ask you. How well do you know Depot Dad?

1: What did Depot Dad have for breakfast this morning?
a) A bowl of Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries
b) A bowl of Safeway Brand Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
c) A pint of juiced broccoli sprouts and ginger
d) Eggs Benedict from the cafe down the street

2: What song must Depot Dad howl at the top of his lungs when he is alone in the car and it comes on the radio?
a) Roll Me Away by Bob Seger
b) Somebody to Love by Queen
c) Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones
d) The Waiting by Tom Petty
e) all of the above

3: What magazines will you find laying around the Depot?
a) Details
b) Highlights
c) Foreign Affairs Monthly
d) Discover
e) none, Depot Dad hates magazines

4: Depot Dad’s mastery of foreign languages is reduced to muttering inebriated instructions to cab drivers in Japan and just enough insults to start a bar fight in France. Nevertheless, Depot Dad does want to travel abroad again someday. Where does he want to go next?

a) Austria, to visit the land of Mozart, Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein
b) Canada, to visit the land of Neil Young, Rush, Triumph and The Cowboy Junkies
c) New Zealand, to visit the land of Hobbits, Elves, Wizards, and Orcs
d) India, to visit the land of Vishnu, Krishna, Yogis, and the thousand castes march

5.: Finally, Depot Dad’s dream comes true and he is sentenced to solitary confinement for thirty days in a well lit room with a comfortable chair. He stops off at his book shelf labelled “Want to Read Some Day.” Which book does he grab on his way to blissful privacy? (only one of these is actually on my bookshelf, and yes, I have been waiting for the perfect moment to read it)

a) The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
b) The collected works of P.G. Wodehouse
c) The Tales of Beetle the Bard by J.K Rowling
d) The Game, Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
e) Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn

Well there you go. Some serious blog fluff while I go to my first appointment with the oncologist. Submit your multiple choice answers in the comments. The winner will receive something. I don’t know what. Something. Tell me what you’d like to win in your comment. Then if you win, we’ll talk about it.

One last hint. No there is no rhyme or reason to these questions. You will not find the answers hidden somewhere on my blog so don’t waste your time looking. I’m just not clever enough to make a puzzle like that. (oh maybe a few hints are here or there but nothing definite). For the most part, its a crapshoot. Just take a wild guess. I just made these questions up on the spot for fun. I’ll post the answers on Wednesday.

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