Guess this is fun, lol okay here is some more stuff:
1. Though I had a guitar at age 11, I didn’t learn how to play until I was 24. My roommate taught me, he had played with the Country Gentlemen before they became famous, he was 17 and his dad wouldn’t let him go to Nashville.
2. The first song I learned was lying eyes, by eagles, Charlie taught me three cords and then put them in a song. Roommates listened to this song for a month before they begged him to teach me another song LOL.
3. Had Audience with Pope John Paul when I was 11, family went and the ladies had to use ladies room before we went in, told them where it was and how it was decorated, never been there before lol.
4. Learned how to ‘swim’ by one of my fathers drunken friends throwing me in the deep end of the pool after I dared him to. Dad did save me.
5. Life member of the Sons of the American Legion (which I held various local, district and Detachment offices) and also belong to Knights of Columbus
6. Love scary movies, all time favorite: Halloween
7. Love old musicals, fav is “Sound of Music”
8. Loved to dive, almost got killed by showing off (for a girl of course) on the high dive, was doing a two with two full twist, came off wrong and landed about a foot away from edge of pool.
9. I don’t dream, or as have been told that II just don’t remember them (yeah right), but when I do it is normally in color and very vivid and recall every detail.
10. This has only happened to me twice, and to two different girls, one my ex girlfriend (at 16) and one my ex wife (at 22), they had recurring nightmares and was able to enter their dreams, and change the outcome. They told me this, so don’t know.
11. Nothing scares me, well almost nothing. I was reading Stephen Kings the Stand at 2:00 am one day and the phone rang and I nearly jumped out of my skin. Lol
12. I am an only child, but my mother had five other children that didn’t live. I would have been the oldest (the miracle child) her blood type and dads are opposites. Before drugs could have overcome it. All of them are now buried with my dad in Arlington National Cemetery.
13. Lucky the abuse laws weren’t in effect when I was growing up, one week I went to the ER 3 different times, the third time the nurse was already filling out my paperwork
14. In high school I had actually trained and been accepted to design computers (this is one I tell you if you ask lol), foiled by history class, three to be exact.
15. As you can tell from #13 I was accident prone growing up, last time I had stitches from cuts (not including having three teeth pulled) the count was 298 stitches, I was 20.
16. When my daughter was born I worked 4 jobs, one full time and three part time. Shoe salesman (full time), bartender, short order cook, and door monitor.
17. I love working on cars but can’t stand to get grease under my finger nails.
18. Didn’t have a place in high school, my friends were jocks, hippies, nerds and straight arrows, fit in with everyone, but was not popular.
19. Speaking of stitches when I sliced open my middle finger on right hand, it was lucky there was a neurosurgeon the to stitch my tendon back together, but it was busy and the nurse kept getting called out so I helped him by holding the instruments when he need another hand.
20. Because of my parents jobs, I have a security clearance.
