Friday, March 31, 2006

No Kidding?

On the eve of April Fool's Day I'm going to try to fool you. The following is a list of things about me and my life. Some of them true some of them not. See if you can pick out the ones that are NOT.

I bat lefthanded.

I throw righthanded.

I've proposed to two different women.

They both said "Yes".

I've been married only once.

My brother once threw out the first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodger game.

I've stood shoulder to shoulder with Sandy Koufax.

I once braided my wife's hair on a TV show...live.

I have auditioned for a Hollywood movie.

I have travelled 60-plus miles an hour in a car--backwards.

When my parents arrived at LAX from the Netherlands they and the eight people with them had a total of $12 to their names.

I can remember the license plate number of the car we drove when I was 6 years old.

I have called 16 different houses 'home'.

I still have my tonsils.

I can say "I love you" in four languages.

My dad never saw me get a basehit.

I've never been in a fistfight.

Being able to fly a plane has long been one of my dreams.

I've asked a Maybelleine model to dinner.

She said "Yes".

I weighed 89 pounds when I was freshman in high school.

I weighed 115 pounds when I graduated from high school.

Lobster is one thing I've never eaten.

I cry easily.

My favorite number is 7.

If I die at an age half-way between that of my dad at his death and my grampa at his, I will die when I'm 77.

My oldest brother is 7 years older than me.

In my 12 years of education (pre-college)I attended 7 different schools.

I graduated from high school in '77.

I was 17.

I am the 7th child born in my family.

I hate math.

My nose was broken by a friend of mine who was teaching me how to box.

I love words.

I sometimes think in spoonerisms.

At my core I am very shy and insecure.

My kids have been to more countries than I have.

I've attended three different colleges.

If requested, I can and have eaten live insects.

225 pounds is the most I've ever bench pressed.

I didn't attend my own high school graduation.

My first day of college I was 17 years old.

Once, I sang in a duet in front of my church.

I wouldn't think twice about driving to California for the weekend.


Okay. That should give you something to think about. Let's see how well you know me. See if you can guess what's NOT true and tell me. I'll give you a clue...NAH! I hate giving clues.

(Pete, you guess last:)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

John, I should know you well enough. I know your oldest brother has got to be 17 or 18 years older....at least.

225lbs seems a little too much. I know you were a stud...er...I mean are...but 225?

Colleges. I can't get three.

Koufax was more like hip to head.

Great to see you today and I hope dinner was perfect.

Pete Vander Meulen said...

Ouch!! to whover anonymous is....(or was after I see him/her again!) 17 years older?

OK on the first shall be last request.

Anonymous said...

Sorry i didn't sign the anonoymous Freedawg. Forgot. No harm intended beyond a smile between friends.

Love,
Mark
(Age: Freeman minus a few)

Pete Vander Meulen said...

:-)

no harm; no foul. I was just jesting, 'justin case u gessed difruntly.

Pete

John said...

Okay so maybe there was only one line in the whole entry that wasn't true and it was this: "some of them are true and some of them are NOT"...the rest of them are true.

Thanks for playing along kids! :)

Pete Vander Meulen said...

so if you come to a fork in the road do you still think in spoonerisms?