Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.

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..allegation[s] of flirting dripping from his lips like drops from a leaky faucet.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar."

When Dad was in one of his rare, fanciful moods, he told guests that the pixies left me on the doorstep because I bit their fingers too often.

My favorite was always when Mum said that before I was born, it rained for seven days and seven nights solid, and when she went out into the yard to ask the sky what it was weeping for, I dropped out of the clouds at her feet and the sun came out. I always liked the idea of being such a bother that I affected even the weather.

Do I look like I'm compelled to do anything? Do I seriously look like anyone could compel me to even bring them a coaster?"
She looked me over again. "You look like you're compelled to cause trouble, but I doubt that's the boss' directive.

Oh the judgmental old ladies at the super market giving me dirty looks! "Look at that troublemaker!" I kind of want to glare back like... "Look at that baby boomer who let the economy go to crap and voted lunatics into government office. "