This is the third installment of the 100 Facts about me. Again, you may notice there are 11 items listed. That is because one of the items is not true -- the other 10 are true. Can you guess which one is a lie? Everyone that guesses correctly wins a brand new car*! (Don't forget that sometimes I lie.)
I'll post 10 more facts and one non-fact next Monday and tell which one of the items below is false next week.
The false item from last week was #1. I have never been engaged to a woman. The other 10 items I listed are true.
Archer, of Archer Radio, guessed the item about me having plastic surgery was the false one. I have had plastic surgery, but I'll explain more about that another time.
Greg guessed the false item was the one about the forest fire. The fire wasn't as bad as it could have been. I was a bit of a pyromaniac as a child and I was playing with matches in a woods. It was fall and there were dry leaves everywhere. The leaves caught on fire and started to spread fast. Luckily, my grandmother saw the flames from across the road, and amazingly, she and another woman she was visiting with were able to beat the flames out before there was a disaster. I'm not sure why, but my grandmother never told my mother about this and never really punished me for it. She may have felt guilty for allowing it to happen. Anyway, that was my closest call with fire.
CHM guessed the Clorox bleach story was false. As a child, (prior to the forest fire) I was laying on the floor near the washer and the bottle of bleach was beside me. For some reason, I lifted the bottle of bleach up and turned it upside down over my face. The cap was apparently very loose or only sitting on the top of the bottle and it came off and bleach splashed on my face -- a small amount which I swallowed. I wasn't very happy, but I lived. It wasn't as bad as having a mouse run up the inside of my pants. I still get the heebie-jeebies from that.
Here's the third list of 10 facts and one non-fact:
1. When I was a supervisor at a previous job, I had one of my employees arrested after I discovered he was exposing himself to little girls.
2. I have been diagnosed with a heart murmur.
3. As a child, I underwent a medical procedure several times that used radium-tipped rods -- the size of knitting needles -- stuck up my nostrils, which were supposed to shrink my adenoids.
4. My neighbor Kirby and I caused my sister's arm to get broken.
5. I am a certified SCUBA diver and have seen sharks in open water while diving.
6. I have shaken the hands of both President Clinton and Vice President Gore.
7. I sang tenor in my church choir.
8. I have walked on the Great Wall of China.
9. I won $5,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
10. I've been a member of both a volleyball league and a bowling league.
11. I am a Community College graduate.
*Brand new car prize is restricted to imaginary and/or fictional characters.
