Strange Facts About Me
Submitted by RosieCotton on Tue, 05/24/2005 - 12:05
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- I taught myself to write backwards cursive in the 6th grade.
- My third grade teacher broke a (plastic) ruler across my leg.
- I have never broken a bone (see AJDaGreat's list)
- I've had my thumb closed in a car door, and the door subsequently locked completely. My thumb was saved and released from the grip of the car door by the sole occupant of the car at the time, my three-year-old brother. I lost the thumb nail, of course.
- I have lost both large toenails, at different times, but they have both grown back.
- I have had two freelance newspaper articles published.
- I used to steal hall passes and forge the teacher's signature so that I could roam the school at large.
- I took accordion lessons in middle school.
- I delivered the weekday afternoon edition of the Dayton Daily News, on bicycle, and the Sunday morning edition at 3:30 AM, when I was in middle school. The newspapers weighed more than I did.
- I went to summer camp for the first time at the age of seven. I packed my own bag, but I forgot to bring underwear, a jacket, or a comb. The staff gave me what I needed out of the "lost and found".
- I did a 90 mile bicycle ride in two days, while smoking.
- I have spent a few nights in jail.
- I have lived in a homeless shelter for a few months.
- I have seen two bull calves be born.
- I have plucked a recently-deceased, still warm turkey.
- I have shoveled manure in a barn.
- I have eaten part of a heifer, with which I was formerly acquainted, in a stew.
- I have lived in a 100-year old house (in New York).
- I have worshipped in a 300-year-old church (in New Hampshire).
- I can whistle Dixie.
- I can belch on command.
- I learned to swim in a galvanized steel stock tank, similar to these.
- I have stepped in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- My favorite music, when I was a teenager, was Johann Strauss waltzes.
- I have four gold teeth.
- I weigh more than my father.
- I attended eight different schools in four different states before graduating from high school.
- My parents are still married to each other.
- I have eaten lunch in the exact same booth at Robinson's restaurant (now closed) in Greensboro, NC, where former President Clinton once sat.
- I have visited Niagara Falls twice.
- I have a United States passport, but I've never used it.
- I have read the entire New International Version of the Bible through at least once.
- I have attended a live taping of Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, when Drew Carey was a guest.
- I have been to the Grand Canyon.
- I have visited L.A., Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and window-shopped on Rodeo Drive.
- I have ice skated
- I have roller skated
- I have ridden an elephant
- I am debt-free
- I have hiked 12 miles of the Appalachian Trail
- I watched my brother jump out of a plane (I was safely on the ground at the time)
- I have been interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times
- I have been to Plymouth, MA at Thanksgiving.
- I have seen all the movies on two Best 100 lists: AFI and Leonard Maltin
- I visited the White House when Gerald Ford was president
- I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
- I have visited six museums of the Smithsonian Institution
- I celebrated New Years Eve 2000 in Washington, D.C.
- I have walked the Freedom Trail in historic Boston
- I have visited Rockefeller Center in NYC at Christmas, where I ate roasted chestnuts
- I've been to the Skydeck of the Sears Tower in Chicago
- I have met the entire cast of Babylon 5, and I have their autographs.
- I have met the entire cast of classic Star Trek, and I have their autographs, but for DeForest Kelley's.
- I have walked on the sets of the U.S.S. Voyager and Deep Space Nine.
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"I did a 90 mile bicycle ride in two days..."
Holy smokes!
Are you saying that because it took so long?
I'd die after 10 miles in a single day. I think I'll take up smoking.
No, no, no, don't do that!! I have since quit, because I was beginning to sound like George Burns.
A pleasure, you strange person you.
How are all you people avoiding broken bones? Geez, I've broken so many, I no longer can name them all. To be fair, though I don't believe I have broken any in at least a decade...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
From reading your list, I can see why :).
I credit having lots of calcium in my diet, and not being much of a risk-taker.
Alas, I always had the calcium, but also the risks...
However, this does make me thank of another entry for my own list!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I, too, learned to write backwards cursive in the 6th grade. Strange. And I'm intrigued about the jailtime. I've always wondered if I'd ever do a bit of time in the slammer. Maybe for a drunk and disorderly, or protesting some injustice or something. Are you willing to share your reasons?
I was blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic.
Ah, I see. I think I'll back away from this one.
I understand. Thank you.