I intend to make blog entries for these all eventually, just so you relish in some good old-fashioned second-hand embarrassment.
- Gave my parents premature gray hair with my antics as a child, which included: electrocuting myself at age 2, losing circulation in my finger after wrapping a tag from a stuffed animal around it, accidentally knocking my brother in the face with my elbow after he’d just had surgery, running into a window at McDonald’s, falling on my head on concrete, knocking a hole in the wall while pretending to be a figure skater, fracturing my arm after jumping around on the couch and trying not to fall on the dog, running over my parrot’s head with a chair (she survived, just lost a lot of feathers), peeing on a park bench as a little kid and not fully appreciating what the consequences would be, having a neighborhood dad come hunting me down after a misunderstanding with his daughter, accidentally pouring a whole vase of water on a group of wedding guests right before a wedding
- Caused a chemical spill while working in a lab, causing a hazmat team to come and take care of the mess
- Hit a bus mirror
- Went against my initial misgivings to ride a Segway
- Accidentally overpaid my electric bill by over $700
- Significantly scratched and dented my truck in two separate parking garage incidents
- Made a serious attempt at breaking my limbs two weeks before my marathon
- Annoying every single seat mate I’ve had on a plane by asking questions like, “IS THIS NORMAL?” during events like routine landings, take-off, and slight turbulence
- Got a truck stuck in mud, and engaged with some interesting small town characters in the process of getting it out
- Fell again while running, this time dislocating my shoulder GOOD TIMES
- Got pulled over a couple of times, including by a game warden
- Punctured a tire