Lately, I’ve been reading “10 things you may not know about me” lists on people’s blogs. I love reading them. It gives an interesting insight into another person’s world and there are always a few on the list that make me laugh.
I was really entertained by Derek - DROG’s list and he called me out to make a list of my own. At first, I didn’t know if I had a list of 10 things that would be interesting. Once I started to think about it, I easily started to come up with one after the other. There was no way I limit the list to “10 things you may not know about me”.
2. I eat popcorn with a spoon.
3. I dated twins, back to back.
4. I was an altar boy.
5. The first dog I had was named "Poochie".
6. I broke into a water park at 3 am by jumping a fence.
7. I was chased out of a water park by two security guards with baseball bats at 3:02 am.
8. Before I got my license, I’d drive my mother’s car when she wasn’t home.
9. I once hit a bus driver with a snowball when he opened the door.
10. I got fired from KFC for eating 12 pieces of chicken before my shift and telling the manager I was sick and couldn't work.
11. I used to sell popcorn and peanuts at the Winnipeg Jets games.
12. I had the record for the most detentions in my Jesuit boys’ high school.
13. I once had 60 days of straight detentions, which included 3 hours on Saturday's, I got the Sabbath off.
14. One year my brother and I sold the most chocolate almonds in our school, 1200 boxes and won a 10 lb chocolate bar.
15. I bought my first case of beer at 15 years old without fake I.D.
16. I'll eat anything but liver.
17. I moved out at 18 years old and would go grocery shopping at my parent’s house when they weren’t home.
18. I threw firecrackers into the visiting basketball teams locker room.
19. I weighed 212 lbs and played Nose Guard on our High School Football team.
20. My parents used to call me "Butch".
21. I once bought my dad hunting gloves for Christmas and he doesn't hunt.
22. I once paid $1200 to go to a resort and fast on water for 7-days.
23. I don’t think much of women that are offended by male humor and can’t take a joke.
24. I’d take true love over any amount of money.
25. I love the excitement of new ventures and wallow in the mundane.
26. I’m tougher on my kids than any of my employees
27. I love throwing out empty packages of food, it makes me feel like I made a good purchase decision.
28. I don’t like Political correctness.
29. I feel lucky and proud to be a Canadian.
30. I don’t like cats.
31. I often make decisions with the toss of a coin.
32. I can get along with most any type of person.
33. I quit school for a year in the 11th grade.
34. I started a lawn care business at 16 years old and sold it at 20 years old.
35. I've only lost one fight to my younger brother, our last.
36. I dated Alice for 6 years before we got married.
37. Growing up, my mother used to drill in my head “you can do anything you set your mind to”.
38. I got into the career I'm in by offering to "work for free" after they wouldn't hire me.
39. I was the only student in my Jesuit boy’s high school that didn't go on to College or University.
40. I got a $4000 loan from a Jesuit Priest guidance counselor to expand my lawn care business when he asked me what University I want to go to.
41. Our wedding cost $6000
42. I once painted my car with a roller and didn't even wash it before hand.
43. I ran away from home at 15 years old and got caught trying to sneak across the U.S./Canadian Border, all I had was a bag of Dorito's, a razor and shaving cream in a duffle bag.
44. For years, Alice and I choose to sleep on a mattress on the floor with no box spring because I thought it a cool thing to do.
45. I was “hit on” by a guy dressed like the cop from the “Village People”.
46. I can't sing.
47. I think I'm a good dancer when I’m drunk.
48. I don't like doing sports where I regularly have to show up at a specific time.
49. I loved everything about school except for the learning part.
50. I attended Youth Parliament at 16 years old.
51. We were the last family on the street to get a color TV.
52. On Sunday afternoons as a teenager, I used to be bused 60 miles to a group home to visit with a severely mentally handicapped Native Indian kid who had no family. (Added this one just to show John Barclay I wasn’t always an a-hole).
53. On a business trip, with a full carload of my employees, I locked all the windows and let out the biggest SBD (Silent but Deadly) fart that had them all gagging.
54. I steal nice looking beer glasses from restaurants and bars.
55. My first day as Company President, I unintentionally showed up wearing two different shoes and I had Alice courier me the missing one.
56. As a youth, I’d missed a lot of bus stops due to high levels of testosterone in my pants.
57. I once got a client so drunk at lunch that he threw up multiple times on the table at a very high end NYC restaurant.
58. I think the high finance world is prone to attract sociopaths.
59. I used to baby-sit until the parents found out I fell asleep before the kids.
60. My dream car is a 1961 red Corvette.
61. I proposed to Alice on a bench outside of a large apartment building that had a revolving restaurant on top, then went to Burger King for dinner, drive thru style.
62. I'm very romantic.
63. I’ve never heard of anyone not liking my Dad.
64. I bite my nails, but only when they get too long.
65. I like skiing under the influence.
66. I once shut down our high school when I called a local radio station, impersonating the principal, and told them to announce the school was closed due to a minor snowstorm.
67. I once put on 6 pairs of underwear in anticipation of getting a spanking, and I should have won an Academy award for the tears.
68. I never did drugs growing up.
69. I've never met anyone who can drink more beer than me.
70. I don't like heavy metal.
71. I love swearing and using the F-word.
72. I can pee in a bottle while driving.
73. I used to think my "mullet" looked cool.
74. I don't mind getting in trouble if the fun quotient is high enough.
75. I'm looking forward to next year when I can say I'm 45 years old.
76. I miss driving without seat belts.
77. I allow smoking in my house.
78. I have the skills to become a good motivational speaker or a TV evangelist.
79. I can't believe my kids turned out so well with me as their father.
80. I like the smell of gasoline and black permanent marker.
81. I often wonder how immigrants get the money to own a gas station or convenience store.
82. Movies can still make me tear up, but I try to hide it from my family.
83. I enjoy reading the Obituaries.
84. I bought my wedding ring at Consumers Distributing for $90.
85. I don’t do church.
86. I regularly listen to Howard Stern.
87. I once came second in a competitive pellet gun-shooting contest and had never shot a gun before.
88. I've always wanted to be locked up in a jail overnight.
89. I don’t mind firing people if they deserve it.
90. Most everyone I meet, start out in “my circle of trust”.
91. No one’s ever earned their way back into my “circle of trust” after they were kicked out.
92. I once did an Ironman with only 6 weeks training and don't recommend it.
93. I sometimes think of getting into politics.
94. I don’t have any skeletons in my closet, they’re all out in open on my blog, hence, why I couldn't be a politian.
95. I had the highest grade point average in my high school history and Psychology classes.
96. I had to go to summer school every year during high school and enjoyed it because there were so many good-looking dumb girls.
97. I once passed out at church.
98. I didn’t know what leftovers were until I met Alice and was introduced to her mom’s fridge.
99. I gained 50lbs after meeting Alice.
100. My mood shifts slightly as the seasons change.
101. I don’t like that a vocal minority suppresses the rights and liberties of the silent majority.
102. I don't like the smell of a hockey rink.
103. I don’t mind losing an argument if someone makes good points.
104. I can argue both sides of an argument just as strongly.
105. I never hold someone accountable for what they say or do when their drunk.
106. I squatted 375 lbs at 15 years old.
107. I hung out mostly with the girls at school, Alice said I had a harem following me around before she took me away from all that.
108. I love 70's music.
109. I used to open beer bottles with my teeth, and now my dentist is able to send his kids to IVY league schools.
110. During a poker match I hosted, I arranged a deck of cards so everyone would get a Royal Flush. They bet everything they had, each thinking they had won the biggest pot of their lives. I did it as a joke, it didn’t go over well.
111. As a kid, I always had a part-time job.
112. Our first house was only 580 square feet and had one bedroom.
113. As a kid, I idolized “Frank Abagnale Jr” and thought it would be great to be a con man.
114. I can’t sell anything I don’t believe in.
115. I love heat and humidity; it feels like the world is giving you a big hug.
116. I was an actor in a K-Tel commercial
117. My favourite number is 13
118. I barbecue a great steak.
119. I love looking at Electronics Stores advertisements
120. I don’t believe the Global warming rehtoric.
121. I can watch the movies "Boogie Nights", “Caddy Shack” and “Tommy Boy” over and over.
122. I’m all for racial profiling at airports.
123. I’ve always been able to talk my way out of a fight.
124. My captain’s hat is 44 years old and was my grandfathers.
125. I fired my youngest bother.
126. I use women's deodorent and razors.
127. I’m afraid of heights and polar bears.
128. I sold alarms systems door to door.
129. I don’t eat crackers in bed.
130. I once dated a girl out of spite.
131. Every Halloween as a kid I’d eat most of my candy the first night and get diarrhea.
132. I’ll forgo money over principle. (I’m working on that flaw).
133. I usually always pee in my wetsuit before or during a triathlon.
134. I think most newspaper writers, magazine writers, political talking heads are nerds and should be interpreted through that prism and movie and television writers are genuis.(Dave Berry is my favourite writer)
135. I’ve always found hard-working women attractive. (Providing their also very very good looking).
136. I had a car with a hole in the floorboard and every time I’d drive through a puddle, I’d get wet.
137. I don’t have a favourite colour.
138. I’m a bad driver, according to my family.
139. I married Pippi Longstocking.
140. People have never been able to figure me out.
140.6 I enjoy life – every day can be an adventure.
P.S. Picture above is me in Grade 12, just so you know I wasn't lying about bulking up to 212lbs because of Alice's mom's cooking.
Easy Bike - 1:05:10 / 30.10 km / 27.71 kph / 126 avg hr
176.0 lbs / 21.0 BMI / sitting resting heart rate 41 bpm.
Posts
10 comments:
140.2: Great List! I was wondering how You would get it down to 10!LOL
121 - Me too
LOL @ 1-72-133
43:Minnesota wouldn't let you in?!
was laughing at the comment on 52 to John
great read Ironman style thanks
D
Long list may be too long...try to get to top 10...but very interesting to know more about you...I will work soon on my 10...
Cheers,
"XTB" Xavi.
D, thanks, It's funny, your like me, we both have a "fixation" with peeing. haha.
X, haha, no kidding, to get to 10 was too hard, I had close to 200 that I had to edit down to 140.2. After I was done, I thought, this is too long, but I put hours into doing the list and didn't want to waste the effort and never plan on doing one again. haha.
I'm sure if I ever had to use e-harmony or match.com and gave them this list, they'd refund me my money and ask me never to come back. haha.
B
This is a very cool list. I should make one and add it to my resume and see how the employers would react :-).
Here are three possible typos that I found in your list: I guess it should be 140.6, not 140.2, “altar boy” and not “alter boy” and “harem” not “heirom”.
I think rule “93. I sometimes think of getting into politics” does not work well with rule “114. I can’t sell anything I don’t believe in.” :-)
Also, “ 132. I’ll forgo money over principle. (I’m working on that flaw).” is definitely not a flaw.
For some weird reason, I too, always wanted to be locked up in a jail overnight. And there were a few occasions when I almost got my wish. Luckily for me, Miha was close by and I ended up locked up in our bedroom instead.
On a different topic, I just noticed that you said that your sitting resting heart rate is 41 bpm. Wow, that’s low. I just checked mine and it was 65 before I drank my morning coffee. Now, after I drank my cup of Joe, it is 73. No wonder that I cannot use Mark Allen’s HR rule for training http://www.markallenonline.com/heartrate.asp : 180-my age (36) = 144. I cannot run for more than 2 minutes at 144. My average HR on the bike/run is between 155 and 165 and in a race it is close to 170. And that’s the average. The max HR sometimes goes as high as 185 bpm. I really need to give up coffee :-(. By the way, are you a coffee drinker?
Please remmove item No.69. Both Tom and I drank you under the table after IMChina and had to put you to bed (slight poetic license on the last point) but we did continue quaffing out beers after you silently sneaked off to bed (having first tried to make friends with a group of drunk Chinamen and abusing Stephan the German unmercifully).
Yes it was a good night - we must plan to smoke those cigars one day.
Yours sincerely - Anonymous
S, of course I have to respond to some things you said.
#1, yes, I have a pretty good, actually darn good, idea of who Anoymous is. Writing styles say a lot. That's why I did my major rant.
#2. Before I hooked up with you I already had at least 6 or 7, plus, it's not a fair comparison, It was my first drink in 2.5 months and had nothing in my stomach for 3 plus days and I'm assuming still dehydrated.
Can you tell I'm competitive about my beer drinking abilities?
I know you can say the same about the time off, but I'll go back to my normal routine and then lets have a rematch, I'll even give you and Tom odds. haha.
D, I'd hire you. But I'd suggest you wear a gas mask on any business trips we make together.
Your right, and I even have 140.6 tattoo'd on me. Maybe I just wish it was 140.2 or it's the jet lag. haha.
Will make the spelling corrections, thanks.
I guess if you were locked up in jail or in the bedroom, either way you were getting "lucky". hehehe
My hr used to be high like yours, if you follow the plan, it takes TIME but it will come down to where I'm at. In most races I'm under 140 bpm.
I do drink coffee, but I make sure to limit myself and stop at a gallon a day.
B
great post. really enjoyed each and every unknown fact.
RG, I'm glad you like it. Your definitely not #23. haha.
142: You smoke REALLY crappy cigars.
J, no, you just smoke REALLY good cigars that you take care off, making my taste like crap. Before I started smoking yours, I thought mine tasted great. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. haha.
But I am going to replace my stock. I feel too guilty smoking your's.
B
Post a Comment