1) I used to be left of Stalin until I dropped out of college and had to pay my own way.
2) In my misspent youth I tried everything but crack and heroin at least once. (Experimentally; I was never a "druggie" and
I made a conscious decision to never again even smoke pot when my wife got preggers with our daughter 15 years ago)
3) I once tried very hard to kill a man and when the shot proved impossible to make without hitting my co-worker resolved the situation
by threatening to shoot his girlfriend. (I was working as an armed security officer in Las Vegas under contract with Clark County.
I was standing on her back at the time trying to keep her from retrieving a knife. He had a .25 and was locked in a wrestling match
with the other officer.)
4) I was in an Improvisational Comedy troop in my distant youth and we performed for congressman Les Aspin at a party at his home.
5) I have a morbid fear of Preying Mantises. (Is that how you spell the plural?)
6) My wife and I hated each other when we first met. When I saw her for the first time in 4 years after that first meeting I fell in love
with her almost at first sight and stole her from her on again/off again boyfriend who was a guy I had gone through school with growing up.
7) For all that I am a died in the wool Conserva-saurous on a lot of issues I have a few social ones that I am very liberal about.
8) I cry like a baby during sad parts while watching movies.
9) I was a line chef at the last restaurant I worked in.
10) My high school sweetheart is now my aunt.
11) I was shot in the leg once with a .22 and patched it up at home.
12) There are things about my life that I will NEVER discuss on an internet board.