March 4, 2023 – Magical Mystical Mimi

It’s a cool Saturday thing hosted by Sam over at Saturday 9 and I get to play along!

“Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we’ve committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do “random questions,” so-to-speak.”

Saturday 9: Wagon Wheel (2013)

Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here.

1) This week, Darius Rucker sings about hitching a ride to reach his lady love.
*****Have you ever thumbed a ride?
No. I grew up in the “Oakland County Child Killer” days. For anyone who lived in the area, we still carry that nightmare with us.

2) Along the way, he loses his money in a poker game. Successful poker players are good at bluffing or misleading others about their cards.
*****Are you good at bluffing, whether at cards or in life?

3) Darius began his career as the lead singer of 90s soft-rock band Hootie and the Blowfish. Today he’s a country singer.

Let’s say you’re stuck in traffic and only one radio station comes in clearly.
*****Would you prefer it play soft rock or country?

4) Darius Rucker will be on tour throughout 2023, playing dates all over the country and making a couple stops in Cancun.
*****Have you ever visited Mexico? If so, where did you go?
No, but I can speak a little Spanish.

5) Darius has lent his talents to fundraising for The First Tee, a non-profit that teaches children “life lessons, self-confidence, and resilience through golf.”
*****Did you participate in organized sports as a youngster? If yes, what did you play?
Well, I don’t often share because my sporty phase was so short,
~~see what I did there?~~
But yeah, you could say I did some organized sports.

6) A big sports fan, he has six TVs in his home so he can watch several games at once. His largest set is 70″.
*****When it comes to TV screens, do you believe bigger is better? Or are you just as comfortable watching from your laptop or phone?

7) In 2013, when “Wagon Wheel” was popular, fans were flocking to the movie theater to see Catching Fire, the second in the Hunger Games series.
*****Are you a Hunger Games fan?
I’ve never seen them.

8) Also in 2013, the word “selfie” was added to the Oxford Dictionary.
*****Do you take a lot of selfies?
Yeah. No.

9) Random question:

*****If we paid you $5,000, would you get Saturday 9 tattooed on your right forearm?
I’m gonna’ go with a NO on that.
I’m still working up the courage to get a family tattoo but it’s not the pain that scares me…