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100 Things - Part 4
60. My tastes in music migrate to the sometimes bizarre. I grew up listening to country, I like bluegrass, dig Zydeco, love P.D.Q.Bach, interested in Raymond Scott, enjoy Tom Lehrer, and even own LPs of Don Bowman and Lester 'Roadhog' Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys. Needless to say, I listen to music by myself a lot.
61. Favorite movie? Raising Arizona
62. I suck at video games. I swing the controller around trying to make the Quarterback run faster, the car turn sharper, the sniper to duck quicker. Eldest & Youngest ridicule and laugh at me. They don't know that I write about them in my blog and call them 'poopoo brains'. I have the last laugh.
63. As a kid I loved cantaloupe, but it didn't love me (if ya know what I mean.)
64. When I was little I had a dream about a bunch of folks on a jury & they found me guilty of something. None of them had pupils, just whites for eyes. The dream kept coming back over & over. Nowadays, people with very light blue eyes really freak me out.
65. I don't enjoy casual touching. There is a short list of people that I like touching me and if you ain't family, the list is even shorter. You can get by with a first-time accidental offense, but don't keep doing it if you know it irritates me and you're trying to be funny. I'll come all unglued (in a civilized way of course).
66. I used to believe in extra-terrestrials. I have severly changed my belief regarding that, but I usually don't share it. It causes people to stare at me & slowly move away. I think believing in aliens is more acceptable.
67. I like collecting old toasters and old movie projectors. At the request of Lovely Wife, both of these collections are kept to a minimum and only one is displayed at a time.
68. When I was a kid, we would go to Silver Dollar City. You could get in free and you had to pay to ride each ride. They had the Train, the Flooded Mine, the Huck Finn's Hideaway, & Grandpa's Mansion. That was it & it was a blast. The best part was the fact that I got to meet people that were on the Beverly Hillbillies.
69. I never stole anything from my parents
70. I came in second in the mayoral election for my hometown. I was an unofficial write-in and I received 20 votes. I was 18 at the time and it was the best showing against the standing mayor that they ever had.
71. I once wore Lovely Wife's wedding dress to work for a Halloween party. I was working at a bank and some customers asked me out. I told them I was already hitched.
72. During my paper route days I would deliver each paper to the front door (the paper was too light to throw). Once I happened upon one couple that was intimately engaged on the living room floor. From then on, they got their paper in the mailbox.
73. The easiest job I ever had was being a lumberjack in the balsa forest.
74. The hardest job I ever had was a referee at a thumb-wrestling match between Edward ScissorHands and Freddy Krueger.
75. I never really held the jobs listed in #73 & #74. I did manage to use up three of my 100 things, though.
76. I waved a magic marker at a co-worker and ink flew out of it all over his new white shirt. I paid for the shirt, but all day he wore this polka-dotted shirt.
77. I really enjoy severe weather. It is such an adreniline rush. I know that folks get injured or killed and property is destroyed, but just watching the magnitude and power of wind and rain just astounds me. Snow, hail, tornado, lightning, thunder, ice, I love it all.
78. I own every copy of Weird Western Tales, Jonah Hex and Hex that Jonah Hex has appeared in.
79. I hate getting played for a fool. I worked at a gas station and a guy conned me out of about $20 in gas. I was trying to help someone I thought was down on his luck. I was going to pay for $5 out of my pocket, I got distracted by other customers and he filled up & drove off. The chewing out from my boss didn't help either.
80. I worked at the Dairy Castle in Channahon, IL. We were supposed to weigh all of the ice-cream cones (it was softserve). I had a guy come in and REALLY wanted more ice cream. He said he was from out of town, would never be back and would never tell anyone. I ended up giving him about 1 pound of softserve on a cone for 35 cents. A week later, another guy came in and asked for the 1 pound 35 cent cone. My boss said we didn't have such a thing. This guy says that his brother came through a week previously and got one. The boss said we didn't have such a thing. While the boss wasn't looking, I gave the guy the 1 pound cone and swore I'd hunt him down if anybody else EVER came in looking for one of these. Nobody else ever did.
81. I hit my thumb with a hammer. It took a full year for the nail to turn black & fall off. It took another full year to grow back.
82. I have never shaved my head.
83. I have fallen off a roof.
84. I was once locked out of my house and had to break a window to get in.
85. I like cats more than I like dogs.
86. Rumor has it that my dad wanted to name me Frwayne.
87. My uncle has a meteorite in the trunk of his car. It's the size of a watermelon.
88. I used to like working on my car. The last one I enjoyed working on was a 78 Datsun B210. That was several years ago.
89. I have no tattoos & no plans to obtain any.
90. The same goes for piercings.
91. I have eaten escargot, snake, bear, elk, venison, swordfish & calamari.
92. My family has a wicked habit of getting you exactly what you ask for for Christmas, maybe. My dad once wanted a cordless screwdriver. I got him a normal screwdriver. I explained that it didn't have a cord. (He should have asked for an electric cordless screwdriver.)
93. I once put a toliet on top of a college.
94. I think that I ran the Governor of Illinois off the road.
95. While living in Tulsa I was almost in two seperate car wrecks with Kenneth Hagin Sr. and T. K. Osborn.
96. Our cats are named after cars. (not my doing)
97. I voted for Jimmy Carter & I regret it.
98. I really really suck at video games. Suck suck suck.
99. Chocolate chip cookies are a major weakness.
100. On a dare I jumped into a huge snowdrift without a shirt. The drift was frozen solid and I almost busted my skull.
