meegannie said:
Have time yet?
well, I'll try to make this quick.
When I was in college, I was an RA and took the Myers Briggs test with the staff of the dorm I was working in. We took the test at one of our weekly staff meetings, and when we finished the test the hall director went through the meaning/significance of each letter (e or i, s or n, etc.) Well, the very last one was "P", for perceiving. As she read through the characteristics that define a "perceiving" personality, I kept thinking to myself "wow that's me...me....me also....this is completely describing me!" So when she got to the end her description, I blurted out, "man! they could write a book about my "P"-ness. Now that may not look bad in print, but the 15 other people in the room didn't have the opportunity to read what I was saying, they just heard "man! they could write a book about my penis!"
The thing is, as I was saying it, I can remember thinking "don't say that. that is not what you want to say," but I just couldn't stop myself. As everyone fell out of their chairs laughing, I just stood up and covered my mouth with my hand as my face turned
. Of course as soon as our meeting ended, people were running to the computer lab to e-mail their friends (this was 1995, we didn't have internet access in our dorm rooms!) across campus and across the country. The next day in the campus cafeteria, as I'm taking my tray up at the end of the meal, I'm passing tables full of people
I don't even know (this is no exaggeration) and they're saying stuff like "hey man, I hear you're writing a book!"
To this day, friends of mine will introduce me to their friends and say "this is the Myers-Briggs guy", and they say "Ohhhhhh....you're that guy!"
oh well.....