Verbosity challenge…
Apparently, I am not a very talkative person. If you know me, then you are probably laughing at how ridiculous that statement sounds at this point, but I guess I’m not talkative unless I get to know a person or if I’m sitting next to someone for long periods of time. In the newsroom, staff writer Jesse Olivarez has decided to associate me with the President Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States. Now, I’m a pretty big history buff (my friends can attest to that), believe that knowing your history is one of the keys to living a better future and I know a lot of, what others would think is, useless trivia from the past but even I had never heard of the story that Jesse sent me, a story about good ol’ Calvin Coolidge.
‘Silent Cal,’ as he was called, was known for speaking very little. Once at a dinner party, a talkative socialite told him that she would bet money that she could get him to speak three words before the dinner was over.
To which he replied, ‘You lose.’
And she did.”
Now, Jesse is on a mission, to get me to verbalize a fully constructed sentence to him before the end of the internship. So far, he has had no success. Good luck, Jesse. This is going to be interesting.
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Cal > Anyone ever