10 Things I’ve Done You Probably Haven’t

I saw this at Rick’s blog, Caffeinated Adventures and thought I would join in the fun.

Here is my list of 10 things I have done that you probably have not done

1. Leaving church one Sunday, last October, I plowed into the car in front of me in the rain(hydroplaned), then proceeded to start a small group with these nice people.

2. Had to douse my grill with the hose because it was on fire….literally….the whole thing

3. married my wife

4. Bit the dust while showing off to my kids while on a bike ride……..Look, no hands……… of course, I ripped both hands up when they hit the pavement.

5. Jumped off my roof into the deep end of my pool, going in so far I sat on the bottom of the 9 1/2 foot deep pool before rising to the top, then refusing to let my 5 year old daughter do the same. The fact that I was terrified was enough for me to tell no-fear girl it wasn’t going to happen for her. She still remembers that to this day, 4 1/2 years later and doesn’t understand why I said no.

6. Learned that the trip from Denver to Pueblo is uphill the entire way, while my wife and I rode our bikes in the MS150, about 14 years ago.

7. Married a non-technical woman, only to have her become almost as technical as me.(ok, in some ways, she blows me away with her technical know-how but don’t tell her I said that!)

8. Found a parking ticket in college on a motorcycle that had been left in the rain long enough that the writing had worn off but the print was still visible. I don’t remember how many copies of that ticket I made, and I don’t remember how many tickets were allegedly written by someone, but I learned a lesson. People get ticked when they get a ticket for parking off center in a parking spot, or when they get a ticket for driving on the grass, knowing full well they had never driven on the grass or parking crooked in a parking space, or too far forward. My roommate, of all people, was one of the most upset people. There was an appeals board, that you could appeal your ticket to(seriously, this is true) and I had to create a mock appeals board and of course, it was “rescheduled” at a different time than the real appeals board. Of course, the mock appeals board never happened, apparently cancelled at the last minute, because supposedly, the ticket writers thought it would never get that far. This overly ticked off group of irrational people finally began to smell something fishy (took them long enough) and they escalated their upset selves to the dean. I thought my college days were over, big time. It took some fancy footwork as well as some other distractions to draw the attention away from this.
Then it’s kind of a blur what happened after that. I kept waiting for people to blow it off and they wanted answers! It was innocent, people take things like this so seriously!

9. Been told to keep all 4 wheels on the pavement by Mayberry campus police. (you know how a sidewalk will have a ramp on one end and a ramp on the other end……it was like that, it was the middle of the night, it was in college, no one was around and I cruised for the length of this sidewalk, like 30 feet, with the 2 right tires on the sidewalk. Barney was somewhere and saw and pulled up behind us when I parked and told me to “Keep all 4 wheels on the pavement!” I wanted to ask him to give me the bullet out of his gun before he hurt himself but that was probably pushing it.

(Looking back, it appears that I had a problem with authority in college, between this and the mock tickets, I’m glad those days are over. These 2 events happened around the same time period, I think.)

10. Lived in 5 states and they all touch each other.

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