Reveal three random facts about yourself

He never left. The gay man in question was my boyfriend's dad. He was hard to please.

 

I'll third the breaking of a windshield. On a '77 Thunderbird the same night of my cousin's graduation, shortly after her dad kicked me out of his house for coming to the defense of my brother, who moments before had gotten into a fight with said cousin's dad's good friend after asking why his son looked like a girl. Nothing good happens at a Chicago barbecue at 3 a.m.

 

Why do I think 3 p.m. would have produced the same?

 

I broke a windshield with my forehead. I don't recommend it. (It happened a split second after I broke the rear-view mirror with my forehead. I don't recommend that, either.)

Anyway...

1. When I was 10 years old I had tea with the head of the Irish Republican Army, in his home.

2. My college courses included history of rock & roll, indoor soccer, bowling, bicycle touring, and juggling. I can juggle croquet mallets. (Well, I could then, and probably could now.)

3. I was editor in chief of The Accolade, my high school newspaper -- a position held 19 years earlier by Jackson Browne.

 

Is it still considered a barbecue at 3 a.m.?

 

- I wait for the hot air dryer to do its thing and come to a complete stop in public bathrooms
- I have a coin from 1810 that I keep in my wallet for good luck
- I love mopping

 

-- The only time I've been to Wrigley Field was for a class trip ... in college. At Ball State, the professor who was voted Professor of the Year by the students could teach a class of his choosing the following year.

The guy who won it my sophomore year was a Political Science prof who did a History Of Baseball class, culminating in a field trip to Wrigley Field.

Better still, he was tight with a lot of my Poli-Sci major buddies. A group of six of us ALL successfully petitioned into the class. It was a blast.

-- My kids' first baseball game was at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Neither of them remember it.

-- In one of my least professional moments ever (I was 21 at the time and it was the second professional event I ever covered), I was in victory lane when Nigel Mansell won the Milwaukee 225 in 1993. I didn't have a photo pass, but no one stopped me, so I figured what the hell? Random fact ... it was also Raul Boesel's best finish (2nd) in a CART race.

Looking back, lack of professionalism aside, I don't regret it a bit. Take advantage of what life gives you, stop and smell the roses sometimes, etc.

 

Asthma
Left-handed
I know how to rappel

Yeah, I was a consultant for Dox Equis on the Most Interesting Man commercials ...

 

I dented the car I'm currently driving on the day I bought it... with my fist... in front of the salesman. And he knocked $1,000 bucks off the price.

 

I was given a passing grade in Algebra II my junior year on the condition that I take the class over again. No problem. It's not like I was wanting to take Algebra III. On the first day of my senior year, I found out that I had the same teacher, same period, same desk and same book. I made an honest C.

 

I have no tonsils or adnoids

I was once handed a baseball by Jim Edmonds at the old Tiger Stadium

When I met Gordie Howe, he made me "pound" it (I was seven years old and had no clue what a closed fist meant)

 

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