25 Things
/My friend, Kate, sent me a note entitled 25 Things via Facebook. Included was a list of 25 random facts pertaining to her with a request for me to reciprocate.
I did, and I thought I’d post the list here as well. It occurs to me that some of these items would make for a good story someday.
1. I once owned a pet raccoon.
2. I haven’t thrown up since 1983 on the Music Express at the now-defunct Rocky Point Amusement Park.
3. I once lived in my car for about a week before being taken in by a family of Jehovah Witnesses and their pet goat (an indoor goat).
4. My favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut.
5. I cannot touch cotton balls without getting the heebie jeebies.
6. I was once unknowingly fed my pet rabbit by a girlfriend’s father.
7. I started writing my first novel while on vacation in Boca Raton, Florida.
8. I have died twice before being revived both times by paramedics. No white light either time.
9. Despite my many injuries, I have never bruised.
10. I asked my wife to marry me at the top of the staircase in Grand Central with more than two dozen friends and family secretly looking on.
11. I’m left handed but play many sports right handed or with both hands.
12. I grew up outside of Boston but am a Yankees fan because I hated my brother, who was a diehard Sox fan.
13. I am a wedding DJ and non-religious minister who marries couples and performs baby naming ceremonies.
14. I have entered four lip sync contests in my life and placed first, second, third, and last.
15. As a member of my high school’s championship marching band, I marched in the Rose Bowl and Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade.
16. I was a state champion pole vautler in high school.
17. I was once lost in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for almost two days.
18. I am afraid of hypodermic needles.
19. I grew up on a horse farm until my parents divorced.
20. My favorite food is ice cream cake, followed closely by hot dogs.
21. I was robbed at gunpoint and knife point on two seperate occasions.
22. I worked as a McDonald’s manager throughout high school and college.
23. My wife and I teach in the same elementary school, two doors down from one another.
24. Field of Dreams still makes me cry.
25. I was once suspended from school for inciting riot upon myself.