10 unique things expained......

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Last week, I responded to the "10 unique things I've done in my life" meme.




1) I was in the bathtub when lightning hit our house.
It was September 1969. I remember that "Bewitched" was on. I was in the tub. I heard a big boom. Mom came in with a towel, fished me out of the tub, and took me to a neighbor's house while I saw a fire engine stop in front of my house. Lightning hit our TV antenna, and part of the current went through the antenna line, leaving singe marks on the carpet where it came out of the floor. I don't rememeber if the TV was totaled. But I would have been a crispy critter if the current went through the water pipes.

2) I played with my band on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
In my freshman year of high school, the "concert band" (the upper tier of the two bands) went on a trip to Washington DC.
On the morning of the last day there, we gave an impromptu concert on the rear steps of one of the houses of Congress. My instructor, who used to be in the U.S. Navy band, probably advised his congressional rep of our trip and asked permission to do this.

3) I fell on the football field during a halftime show.
I was also in the marching band in high school. One day, when the field was very muddy, I executed a sharp left turn. My feet went out from beneath me, I fell on my left side, and me and my clarinet were covered in mud. The reed was broken, so I couldn't play anymore. But instead of stopping right there, I continued to march in place and mime playing. There is allegedly a film of this taken by of of the assistant instructors, but it has yet to surface.

4) I created a high school-level music class.
I think I already mentioned the electronic music class I proposed before the school board during my senior year in high school.

5) I was featured in a newspaper article.
As a result of the class, the Buffalo Courier-Express did a short article on me, the class, and my teacher. The picture had me holding up a Rhodes electric piano as a prop.
mrlogicwas also featured in a newspaper article.

6) I was on TV for a weight-loss program.
In 1985, I went though the Weight Loss Clinic program. I made my goal. And they asked me if I'd go on "AM Buffalo" to give an on-air testimonial. Needless to say, I gained it all back in a few years.

7) I drank punch out of a urinal.
One of my many Delta Chi stories. In the basement, we had an old urinal that some of the older brothers somehow obtained from a restaurant that remodeling their restrooms. One of the brothers was a chem major, and was able to obtain a gallon of nitric acid to sterilize it. They gave it a good cleaning before other brothers worked on the plumbing. One took out the flush valve, and another hooked up some metal and rubber tubing to it so that the punch would cycle through it like a fountain. We always used red punch inside the bowl; never any other color. Meanwhile, our neighbors at Sigma Alpha Mu were drinking their beers out of hiking boots and rubber chickens.

8) I urinated into a 50-foot cliff while standing at the top of the cliff.
This happened during a weekend camping trip to Allegany State Park. I don't remember where the cliff was, but I was on a hiking trail near it, and I had to go. It didn't look that high, since there were trees and vegetaion in the ravine below.

9) I met Kevin Costner.
Kevin was one of the featured guests at the 1990 Delta Chi Convention. (Yes, he's a brother. His first wife, Cindy, was also there. She was once a Snow White at Disneyland.) I had Kevin sign a "Bull Durham" poster for me.

10) I dated (and made love with) a woman whose bra size was 44F.
I think I've mentioned Amy before here on LJ, whom I was dating in '93. Yes, she's a Big Girl. That's why she calls herself "Zon" now -- short for "Amazon" or "Amy'Zon".

11) I played basketball naked.
No, I won't elaborate on this one. :) I had to be very careful, though, lest I give the boys a nasty case of whiplash.