Saw this coming a mile away as I was doing my nightly reads; Shane got tagged by Andy, who then tagged Angel, who then tagged me. The funny thing for me, for as long as I’ve been online, this is the first meme I’ve ever done online (well, not counting the round robin emails that were popular years ago). The rules, so far as I’ve read them, is that I’m supposed to list seven random or weird facts about myself and then tag seven other people. That being the extent of the requisite preamble:
- When I was sixteen, a friend showed me how to ride his motorcycle - everything but the brakes. I drove out of his backyard in full view of my dad, my brother, and my kid sister straight into oncoming traffic at 50+ mph. I don’t remember hitting the pickup truck, but I do remember coming to hearing some woman screaming “He’s dead!” and replying “No, I’m not” from underneath a car’s right side (the tire was a couple of inches from my head). The rear axle of the bike entered between my left Achilles tendon and the ankle, the chain wrapped around the ankle and snapped it in three places and yet my glasses landed intact in the grass of the yard I’d exited moments before, and I suffered no injuries to the head though I wore no helmet.
- While I can play nearly any musical instrument I set my mind to learn (I’ve been called a human jukebox by some musician friends), I can neither read sheet music nor whistle a melody.
- My favorite meal to fix for others is Beef Stroganoff - all fresh ingredients, made from scratch.
- I can still recite most of Die Lorelei nearly 40 years since taking German in High School.
- While playing in a lounge band in my twenties, while in Cleveland, Ohio, we partied with members of Journey and ELO, and were invited to play soccer in Browns Stadium as the World Series of Rock concert they were in town to play had the stage setup - still have the pictures of the flying saucer being set up while we’re kicking a soccer ball around.
- I once hitchhiked from Framingham, Massachusetts down to Naples, Florida, back up the Gulf coast side to I-10, out to New Mexico, back across Texas on I-10 and I-20, ending up in Norfolk, VA - where I then “hitched” a ride on a destroyer going up to Boston. Total time gone? Three weeks.
- I cry at movies - sometimes over things others might not get or in movies where it might be a bit unexpected. AI - Artificial Intelligence is an example of this. Perhaps I need treatment? A support group? A syndrome named after me?
I’ll tag my seven people later - it’s 3:35 AM, and I need to get to bed. Look for the updates…
UPDATE: OK, I’m tagging Dave, Kweisi, Monica, Les, Jen, Dan, and Chad to respond (or not) as they see fit… and for the record? This was fun, but let’s not play tag like this too often - my brain cramped up on this stuff 
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