I'm 39 years old and I've never:
- Tamed a lion (but once, I did manage to wrestle a 10 lb cat into a carrier...it took 20 minutes and I got like 5 or 6 flesh wounds)
- Been to Hawaii (but I've been there in spirit with the Brady's)
- Won the lottery (one time I won a free ticket on a scratch ticket I got as a gift)
- Met a President (I did meet the Governor of Maine...it was a prize for a contest I won..I got to sit at his desk and apparently commented that running a State could not be that hard as his desk was awfully clean....)
- Caught a foul ball at and MLB game (though one time, I caught a piece of Manny's bat...more precisely it caught me but whatever)
- Been asked for my autograph (unless you count when the trooper asked me for my signature on the ticket he just wrote me...)
- Taken a proper IQ test (though I think Mensa would accept based on my wit and charm...and willingness to pay the entrance fee)
- Been mistaken for a super model (but when I first moved to Boston, I got mistaken for then sitting Governor Jane Swift)
- Leaned to speak a second language fluently (I barely passed Spanish in high school and what was I thinking taking Latin?!)
- Been confirmed (amazing for a Catholic I know but as a kid, when I would have been confirmed, we were not going to Church on a regular basis and as an adult, when I came back to the Church, I just never got around to it)
- Met a member of the royal family (but I keep trying, I know I'll get to meet the Queen someday...we're friends on FB...and I think she and I could have lots of fun together....)
- Water skied (I have a vague memory or trying when I was younger and was at the Clough's camp but I'm pretty sure I never ever actually made it up on the skies) or snow skied for that matter (imagine that, from Maine and never snow skied...oddly, I have no interest)
- Read Moby Dick (but I know the first line)
- Seen any bill bigger than a $100 dollar bill (and it was not even like it was my bill, I was depositing it for the company)
- Flown first class (though I was once bumped to business class)
- Been to our nation's capitol (what the hell kind of Patriot am I?!?) or a Joint Session of Congress
- Chopped down a cherry tree (but when I was a kid, I helped Dad and Grampy split wood)
- Never had anything or anyone named after me (but I have had a bar stool dedicated to me....2 actually.....)
- Never saved some one's life (though one time, when I was like 10, maybe 11, my youngest sister who was like 1 or 2 fell into the deep end of the pool and sunk to the bottom. Uncle Ed and I were the only two who saw it happen and I jumped in and pulled her up...but that does not really count because I'm pretty sure she would have surfaced....I'm pretty sure kids float)
- Asked for a raise (not to say I haven't gotten a a raise...I just earned it instead of asking for it)
- Been bitten by a turkey (but Lucy has)
- Roped a calf or ridden a bull (but when I someday win the lottery and buy a ranch, I plan on doing both)
About the Governor's desk, there are some people who have two desks/offices: One (neat) one they use for meeting people, and another (messy) one where they actually do the work. The owner of a mail house we use as a vendor does that, for instance, and I'd bet most Governors do, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing at your parenthetical clarifications because I just did the same thing. :)
ReplyDelete"It's only a flesh wound!" Tell that to the gaping paper cut on my index finger!
ReplyDeleteFun list!!
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