The Nerd Confession Thread

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bwahahaha. Guess I shouldn't have started school in Germany

I started with the idea that schools were for concepts and growth and fun and....



And mean dad just perpetuated that.

At dinner: Where does blue corn come from?
Dad: Five bucks to the first person who finds out!
Abi: *runs to the phone and calls the public library - this was before google*

LOL. There was no hope. I was forced into research at a young age.

Wow, I would've made a fortune when I was a kid. My parents just said, "Look it up." All the time. We had built in bookshelves at both houses that I grew up in. Dad made 'em. We needed lots and lots of bookshelves!

 

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There was "look it up" and there was "we don't have the info at home, prize to whoever finds out first".



Oddly we did NOT have a lot of books in the house. I think my dad grew up military and then was military and just a habit of not owning much. We always had library books around but very few owned.