When you were growing up, who was the most influential potato in your life?

How did it help you? How did it affect your life and how did it help make you the person you are today?
Serious replies only.

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Mr. Potato Head. He taught me it’s okay for people to pull off my eyes, ears, nose, mouth, arms, and legs to rearrange them however they want. Also his role in Toy Story was very inspiring on many levels. The fact that he survived and wasn’t made into vodka is a huge influence for me.

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Sadly, when I was growing up I wouldn’t let anyone influence me positively. I was very lonely and made many poor choices and it is what eventually led to my sz.

My sister is the sweetest potato I know! (yes, pun intended)

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I didn’t recognize a good role model until i was about 20. Likely why i slipped so demented. But i valued my lost love of teenage days even to this day. And my granpa for care of others

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Now Mr potato head was a great creative toy but I remember when they just used a Potato. A real one. And then my brothers and sisters would lose all the parts and I was just left with a rotten potato.

Then a plastic mr potato arrived in our home and everything changed. As the Graduate was told, “There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it.”

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There was a kid in our class whose last name was Poteete. I called him (at home - Potooto and went around saying it enjoying the round sounding syllables. Almost like those plastic whistles with a stopper on a metal wire with a loop on the end for your finger so you could move the stopper in + out to make the sound go up and down and everyone everyone else - who were older than you - were so glad when it got lost.

So maybe that kid’s name helped give me the good feeling I have for words in poetry which I write at times - When it rains it pours - and then the 7 year drought.

It taught me to enjoy myself regardless of what others think.

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The potato in my head

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My mother’s father, he was always the biggest influence in my life, and he loved potatoes.

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@77nick77 Who was your most influential potato?

My kindergarten teacher, Mrs, Spud. She was very nice and very kind and I admired her ability to be patient and keep her cool even with a classroom full of 25 unruly tater tots.

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The rock.

15 characters because this is actually true.

My uncle couch powtaytoe.

He tought me how to take it easy and relax.

Hmm… was this uncle a Native-American by any chance?

he was 50percent russet with a little yukon gold and a hint of Kennebec

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Hey! So was my uncle too!

I had a lot of role models, they didn’t really roll or modeled though.

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The most influential potato in my life has been…tie between all of the shrinks who had me as a patient. Maybe the first one, maybe the latest. All really taught me the same thing.

But one saw something in me that no one else saw. The sentence he said has been guiding my life and still does, even right now. He said “if you overcome this, you could make an incredible shrink.”

So I continue to tread the path. It’s enjoyable. It can be painful. It can be maddening and hard. It can be amazing at moments, not to me, to others. I don’t value doing things strictly out of my own satisfaction- I have to captivate and interest and move people. And I have my moments. They’re friggin intense, like existential orgasms. Makes me feel alive.

Ole Russet he was quite a rascal

Remember making potato batteries, or electric potato’s when you were growing up? I made my own paper at one point using salt marsh grass and recycled material.