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25 random things..
1. Once (maybe more than once) I told a girl who had just sneezed to shut up.
2. I once (just once) asked a girl out to Sadie Hawkins dance (traditionally, it’s the dance that girls ask out guys to). I was rejected.
3. My GPS unit is pretty fragile and tends to fall out of its suction cup. One time, I went to a Kmart to look for a certain type of chocolate (Yes, Mr. Rowe, the Hershey Raspberry filling kind, I still can’t find them, good thing you’re from Hershey). When I came back, the emergency lights were on. Thinking my car had been broken into, I slowly walked around the car until I realized that the GPS unit had fallen on my emergency blinker button and turned it on.
4. I lost my keys on my way to Colorado during Thanksgiving of 2004. Since I was returning to Berkeley before anyone else that I knew, I was pretty screwed. That is, until I ran into the student manager of the building (Dennis) at a layover in Salt Lake City.
5. I’ve gotten out of a ticket for driving 105 miles per hour in Colorado.
6. I got robbed in Panama. My passport, credit cards, driver’s license, $200 cashier’s checks, ~$40 cash. I got everything except the money back 10 hours later by paying $60 to the underground mafia. I got my $200 cash back once I canceled the cashier’s checks.
7. I almost drove off the Andes in Peru when, 11000 feet above sea level, the concrete roads turned into gravel around a dangerous curve. I estimate that I was about 2 feet away from certain death.
8. I learned the other day that turning the windshield wiper fluid on while driving 75mph with the sunroof open is a bad idea.
9. I’ve visited 30 countries. (not layovers or just driving through… that would add Ireland and UK.)
10. Before there was Gillette Fusion with 5 blades, there was Gillette Mach 3 with 3 blades. I once cut myself and learned that I actually had cut myself 3 times.
11. When I was in Kenya, I drank for 14 hours one day(night) and ended up with a $400 tab. Except I never paid a dime because I was on military orders.
12. I’ve never had a relationship that lasted longer than a year.
13. I was so addicted to the arcades when I was 7 years old that I once beat Captain America and The Avengers by myself on a single dime.
14. I’ve moved at least once every 2 years since birth.
15. My favorite (and basically only) comic was (is) Calvin and Hobbes.
16. I once slept for a little over 24 hours and didn’t know what day it was when I woke up.
17. My father’s living in Korea, my mother’s in LA, I’m in NY and my brother’s in Germany.
18. I won a $2000 jackpot at my first slot machine in Vegas.
19. I’ve always had the same cell phone number (probably always will).
20. I had a surgey on my intestines when I was 9 years old (UCI Medical Center, which is why I think so highly of UC-Irvine). I fell off my bike and the hollow end of the metal handlebars pierced into my intestines, but leaving my skin intact. It rose like they do in the movie alien and I couldn’t walk for 3 weeks. After the surgery thanks to Medicaid a week after that, I couldn’t walk for another 3 weeks.
21. In Colombia, I picked up a hitchiker that looked like Sideshow Bob. We actually slept in the same room that night. Even if he was trying to get my intestines to sell, I’m sure he would have noticed my scar that would have indicated someone’s already been through the goods.
22. Even after all these years, I still think the most talented musician to come out of the 1990s was Jeff Buckley. His music may not be so agreeable to everyone except the famous depiction of a Leonard Cohen song called “Hallelujah,” but the sheer talent is simply remarkable. His range was amazing, and his ability to play any song he wanted in any style whether it be with just his guitar or a full array of instruments cannot be exaggerated.
23. I once saw a woman on her way out as I was walking into the men’s bathroom. That confused the hell out of me because I thought for a second that I was walking into the wrong bathroom but I wasn’t.
24. When I was 17, I tried to drink a gallon of milk. I must have had less than half a cup left but I just couldn’t do it. I would have been $15 richer. (urge to try again… rising)
25. I’m going to be an uncle in mid May.