I played a sport in school - I ran track. I was a sprinter and long jumper. One meet senior year they had nobody running on the 440 high hurdles and so I said "Hey, this looks like it combines my jumping and sprinting into one thing." so I said I'd give it a shot, since I was pretty much guaranteed to place. I got out on the track when they said "Click them up for high hurdles" at which point those hurdles got a lot higher. I was already in my starting place, so I just said "Fuck it, I'll try." I hit the first hurdle and went down, fucking up my knee. I was out the rest of the season.
I've bought a product off an informercial - Nope. No snuggie thuggie cultist am I.
I've cried in a public place - Ex-GF made me do it. The bitch. lol.
I will buy candy to give out to children this year - Fuck yeah. And the leftovers go to work with me (my kids will have their own stash and so won't need this).
I have an embarrassing interest or hobby - Everything I do is embarrassing for a normal person. Every GLBer at one point or another stared and dots and yelled at them, some of us for upwards of 10 years. Not sure if this will be visible or not, but here is my geek room in our house, AKA "Auxiliary Control", which includes my Robotech/Anime toys, my multi-layered RPG shelves, my board game collection (including a ton of Avalon Hill), my comics display rack, my fiction shelf (mostly sci fi/fantasy/hooror books), etc.
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I've seen someone die - Quite a few times, but the two most memorable: Sophomore year of undergrad, was heading down the escalator in the Foggy Bottom metro station, since my friend and I were heading down to Tracks for goth/Industrial night. At the bottom of the escalator, someone had fallen- those who know some of the Metro escalators know how steep and long some of these are. He must have slipped right before we entered the station, because a pool of blood was starting to come out from under him, just like they do in the movies. At that point he died- there wasn't anything we could do for him. So we left him there as the ambulance crew came from almost literally across the street (GW Hospital is right there) to take c are of him. The second one I was on K Street near my wife's office when I heard a huge screech of tires breaking. Looked up and there was a big white paneled delivery truck- the driver's door got flung open and the driver just ran and ran. I looked and saw a mangled bike behind the truck, then saw what was left of a person wrapped around the driveshaft and rear axle. Again- there was absolutely nothing we could do for them- they were already dead.
I still own something I had when I was a child - Tons of stuff, from my old Legos, quite a few comics and games, and the like. A lot of my core "collections" started from when I was a kid, whether it was RPGs or boardgames or the like.
I have been to a party in the last month - No, but I'm going to a Krampusnacht planning meeting on the 14th at DC Brau.
I currently have a dating profile - LOL no. I am loooooooong past dating. Luckily.
I've gotten an autograph from a celebrity - I have run into a lot of celebrities but have very few I have autographs of, since I didn't chase them much. The ones I mainly have autographs from are when I worked at Crown Books during latter undergrad years. We had a lot of people come through to sign stuff: Jay Leno, Patti LaBelle, Julia Child, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, Kevin Anderson, Tyra Banks (she signed a calendar- lol), Michael Crichton, a whole bunch of others. The only one I actually have a signed book from is Julia Child- baking with Julia. She was awesome.
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