Pete Interviews Rachel

I decided it might be a good idea for me to interview Rachel. You know, so you could get to know her a little better.

Pete: Hi Rachel! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview for our blog. So, what did you have for breakfast this morning?

Rachel: I had some delicious "Tastee Ohs" for breakfast this morning, which are in no way, shape, or form to be confused with the famous General Mill's brand breakfast cereal, "Cheerios."

Were they delicious? Did you eat the recommended serving size? Where did you purchase said "Tastee Ohs"?

Yes, they were very delicious and satisfying because I ate an amount that was probably two or three times the recommended serving size. Have you ever measured an exact serving size of cereal before? It's insanely small.

I believe that Tastee Ohs can be found at your friendly local Dollar General in the breakfast foods aisle.

What other fabulous treasures can you find at the Dollar General?

Besides amazing bargains on whole grains? Well, let's see... I'm pretty sure you can also buy roach bait and beautiful garden "decorations" at the Dollar General. I hear some people also buy things like toilet paper and shampoo there.

Wow, it sounds like they have some great savings. I'm sitting at the back of a bus going to work right now, and there's a man twitching and glaring at me. He appears to have a bike chain wrapped around his pant leg. I can see his underwear. What do think about that?

Are you sure he's glaring at you? What if he's just glaring at the space around you?

He's definitely glaring at me. He snarled, just now. How does that make you feel?

He snarled at you? That is bizarre. I don't know how I feel about that.
Akward, I suppose.

Tell me a funny story about something that happened last week. Keep it brief, please.

Last week someone broke into my camper and slept in it. I knew because they put all the blankets on the counter and tracked grass clippings all over the place. They didn't steal anything.

Was there anything in there worth stealing?

My hello kitty phone and sandwich maker

Let's say you're having a party this weekend. All of your co-workers are coming over. What would be the 3 worst choices of board game to play at said party?

Does Twister count as a board game? That's a game I absolutely would not want to play with my co-workers. As for standard board games, I think the worst choices would be Charades, Parcheesi, and this Garfield board game that I loved when I was a kid, but probably isn't the best now that I'm all grown up.

Isn't that always the way it works though? You enjoy something as a kid, and then as an adult you see it again and you think "wow, this is really lame. I really thought I was smarter than that as a child." But you weren't. Nobody was. What else did you enjoy as a youth that you now think is ridiculous and stupid as a grown-up?

When I was in 4th grade, I read way too many "Sweet Valley High" books and decided that if I was going to be cool at all in middle school I was going to have to start my own club. So I made baseball-style cards with cardboard and pictures I cut out of a Horse Fancy magazine and started my own horse club. I really don't know what the cards had to do with anything, or why I picked horses to be the central theme of my oh-so-exclusive club. I think 3 or 4 of my friends joined, though.

I also used to play my own version of MASH, but instead of using it as a magical charm to figure out who I was going to marry and what kind of car we'd drive, I put numbers, colors, and body parts on the board. So I'd get results like "You're going to live in a Hut and have 4 blue arms!"

Magical. If there was a Peroxide Mocha Saturday morning cartoon, what would the plot be?

I imagine it would probably star Pete and Rachel and their magical recording studio. An evil villain would always be trying to sneak in and steal their records, but would be foiled at the last minute by Pete & Rachel's wacky antics.

What's the evil villain's name?

I'm trying to think of something really clever, but nothing's happening. Perhaps he'd be a Nameless Villain, referred to only as "The Mean Guy."

What advice do you have for aspiring young musicians who look up to you and want to be like Peroxide Mocha?

Never try to be anything that you're not. Be kind to people. You don't have to be cool.