In my nearly forty-two years (and counting) on this planet, I’ve accomplished many things.Β Off the top of my head, they include:
- Earned a degree from a four-year university in five years
- Won two league championships for baseball (The Theissen Glass Braves in the Midget League and The Carpets International Eagles in the Teener League)
- Managed to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show over three dozen times in the theater at midnight
- Drank a pint of Guinness straight from the source at the Guinness Factory in St James Gate in Dublin, Ireland
- Perfected my subway face as a passenger on a New York City Subway train on the way to Yankee Stadium even while some dude in a suit with a cardboard box full of noisy wind-up toys got his ass handed to him by about six prepubescent boys not even ten feet away from where I was sitting
- Played a gig on the same stage where Rick “Rock n Roll Hootchie Koo” Derringer had rocked out on just one night before
- Taught hundreds of middle school math students how to play a game called Fizz Buzz which utilized knowledge of multiples of threes and fours
- Wondered if any of those same students realized that the game could also be used when they got bored with playing quarters at some point during their post-middle school years … like I did
However, that list would be even more complete if Lake Tahoe wasn’t so friggin cold and I’d been able to stand up during my (regretfully) only attempt at water skiing.
These two pictures accurately capture the essence of that experience in the late nineteen seventies.
Fun pictures!
Umm…your subway face experience sounds much worse than mine on the same train line, over a decade ago. Riding between cars for a brief interlude of fresh air when we surfaced from underground, reading a book. Busted as soon as the train stopped at the Yankee stadium stop. Nothing like a ticket for misbehavior on the way to work at a respectable job!
I like the way you peek between the sides of the vest π
hey you forgot your daughter!! Now THAT’S a major accomplishment!
Muscles were not your problem… the bent arms were.
Knees Bent, Arms Straight!
Seems like that vest should have pulled you up and out of the water! ‘Course it also seems like the frigidity of the water would have you up and out of it, too… π
I think we need to know more about this Fizz Buzz game, hmmmm??!!??
Karen
I always preferred Fuzzy Duck to Fizz Buzz, but mainly because there was no math (and more profanity) involved.
I like your accomplishments!!! Especially the first one π π
I like that u think and write so positively.
In my country we say one has accomplished in life if one 1. planted trees (this I have done), built own house/family (I have not done half of this π no house yet.), and have got children (this have not too)”.
Hm, u know i have just understand, this shows the main values for my culture – nature, home/family, and children. Have not ever think about this before.
I can still hear the pop of that kid punching that guy in the nose.