Post things I’d rather my fellow 43T’ers didn’t know about me

I photographed my crotch this last year.

This last year I’ve gone on a zip-line twice, climbed 2 walls, repelled, and climbed on a ropes course. Each time I had to get into a harness and each time I was amazed at how it made everything look bigger. When no one was looking I discretely took a photograph of myself in my harness. I later showed the photo to my wife and she wasn’t impressed. I didn’t have the light at the correct angle.

Note to self. Delete this entry.

When I was young (grade 1 to 3) I stood up in front of class and told them that my mom said that I could grow my hair as long as I wanted. This was in the 60’s, long hair was a sign of rebellion. That very evening my parents pulled out the scissors and chopped my hair. The next day I heard a choir of “Spyrunner got a hair cut, Spyrunner got a hair cut”. My parents never knew the pain of embarrassment that I felt from that episode. I really wished they would have held off for at least a week.

Yesterday at church the minister’s daughter got up in front of the congregation and confessed that when she lost her job 8 months ago it was because she stole from the company. Her court date is coming up next week. I’ve done some embarrassing things in my life, but I have never told them to a large group of people like that. Kudos for her for her bravery.

Not surprisingly, her father preached about casting the first stone.

Good luck T. I hope everything turns out OK.

This actually happened to a co-worker of my mom’s but it’s too good not to pass on.

One day a lady was sitting at a coffee shop drinking a cup of coffee. A gentleman near her sat down with a donut and promptly got up and left, leaving an untouched donut at the table. Temptation finally got to the woman and she picked up the donut and took a bite. Suddenly she saw the man come back to his table with a cup of coffee. She was so embarrassed that she threw the donut at him and stormed out of the coffee shop.

Yes, it’s a true story.

I read Cosmo.

Growing up we had a boarder. One day I was mad at her. I tightened up her right bra strap an inch and loosened the other one an inch. I was hoping that she would walk around lopsided all day.

The doctor had two free days for my surgery. I scheduled it for the day before we had two family weddings. I told my wife that was the only day I could get in.

When I lived in Canada I taped 80’s T&A movies at the end of my parent’s VCR tapes. When I went to college I taped over the movies with baseball games. While clearing out my mother’s condo I came across a recording of Magic Flute; I’m pretty sure it included a few inning of the Blue Jays.

I deloused.

A year and a half ago our family got hit with lice. I had a rather mild case, since I have so little hair but the rest of the family was not quite as fortunate. We had to go through 2 treatments on successive weekends to get rid of all the nasty little guys. We did find the cheaper lice kits did not work nearly as well as the name brand versions. We also saw that many of the stores were out of their delousing products. Grand Rapids had quite a large, but silent epidemic. Several times I’ve gone to the local pharmacies I have noted how stocked their shelves are to see how paranoid I should be.