Five fun facts about your life

Akin to two truths and a lie:

1. A current major-league baseball player lived in my house directly before me.

2. My maternal great-great grandfather had four brothers who served in the Civil War. Three of them died in service: Two in battle, one at Andersonville.

3. The ex-wife of a very good college friend is now married to former CIA director George Tenet.

4. A woman I graduated high school with was a POW during the first Gulf War.

5. A former president lived and practiced law less than two blocks from my childhood home, albeit in a different century.

 

I am no fun. Therefore there are no fun facts about me.

 

1. I got an A on a book report in grammar school about a book that didn't exist. I'd forgotten about the assignment and brainstormed a book and the report on the bus.
2. I got married in the same Las Vegas chapel as Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra, and while my marriage lasted nearly a decade, it also ended in divorce.
3. I took 9 classes and 23 hours during the second semester of my senior year in college in order to graduate on time, which the dean told me was a record at the time.
4. President George H.W. Bush once bought me a drink
5. I am DB Cooper.

 

Reveal three random facts about yourself

 

Most of these aren't actually about you, lol

 

Last post on that thread was six years ago.

The title of this thread has been slightly changed, lol.

 

I taught myself cursive when I was 7.

I spoke on a long-distance telephone call to former MLB relievers Lynn McGloughlin and Donnie Moore (yes, that Donnie Moore) when I was a kid growing up in Arkansas.

I quit my job, sold everything I couldn't fit into my car and moved (with two dogs) to Virginia for a woman I'd never met. She became my second ex-wife.

My first and final classes for my 4-year bachelor's degree came 22 years apart.

I've never seen It's a Wonderful Life.

 

I was in the same graduating class as a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion.

I had a distant cousin who played in the NFL before the merger.

I was born on the day of the greatest earthquake to ever strike the U.S. (I shook the world!)

I knew all the states and capitals and how to spell them by first grade.

I have been a trained weather spotter and storm chaser for 20 years, but have never actually seen a tornado.

 

I was going to put that Tommy Lasorda screamed at me a couple of years ago, but that's hardly rare.

 

1. Former President George H.W. Bush nearly fell off a stage and into my path as I was walking outside the press workroom at the Convention Center for the Super Bowl in 2004.
2. A son of another republican president is a friend of mine.
3. My next-door neighbor was arrested and charged with 16 felony counts for maintaining his dwelling for the manufacture, sale and/or distribution of drugs.
4. I grew up around the corner from a woman featured in Playboy's issue of NFL cheerleaders. She was working as a mail clerk at a local post office at the time the magazine's publication.
5. David Byrne and I had the same driving teacher several years apart.

 

1. I was once thisclose to running over Mark Cuban with my car. Whoops.
2. I lived within walking distance of every school I attended, including college, from the same house.
3. I once rode a motorcycle 140 mph -- but will not get on a rollercoaster.
4. I'm fortycoughcoughcough and I don't know how to swim.
5. Whatever important movie you can think of, there's probably a better than 50-50 chance I haven't seen it.

 

Don Jr. or Eric?