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 six weeks before being taken in by a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses and sharing a room with their pet 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 been 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 stepfather, 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 vaulter 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.
j 21. I was robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint on two separate 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.”
