Twenty random facts

Twenty random facts about me...


1) My biggest regret in life is having been a boy scout for years and never applying myself to earn the rank of eagle scout.

2) I deathly detest maggots. They make me gag nearly every time I see them.

3) I am an insomniac. I often live on only three hours of sleep a night.

4) I want to ride my bicycle a hundred miles in a day without stopping.

5) I like to sit on my porch late at night and watch cars go by.

6) If I could be anything other than a cop I would get into graphic design.

7) I've never in my life been on a real vacation or left the country.

8) I used to regret having never been in combat when I was in the Marine Corps.

9) I'm now thankful that I never had to go to combat.

10) I believe that most (but not all) people who report being of crime against their person are full of Bologna and most true victims never report being victimized.

11) I have a recurring dream that I am sitting in a white room at a steel table and across from me sits someone (varies who from dream to dream) that I find elicits, in real life, very strong emotions of hatred and disdain. In the dream I feel only content and we sit across from each other talking about our lives and, for that moment we are just two people talking like friends.

12) For years I dated women who reminded me of my first girlfriend. I enventually realized what I was doing and stopped.

13) I married my wife in large part, and against my better judgment because it would have felt to me like a failure to not marry her.

14) One of the most rewarding things I've ever done is carve a jack-o-lantern at my son's school with a little girl who's father didn't show up to do so even though he had assured the school on two previous occasions that he would. When I heard the father's name I realized he was someone frequently arrested and was notorious for fighting the police.

15) On a domestic between a meth/crack addict man and woman, I played catch for a few moments in the driveway with a cute, withdrawn, blonde haired three year old boy. The boy was the nephew of the young man my wife was having an affair with. The child's place in life made me very sad.

16)I get teary eyed when I watch Lance Armstrong's Nike commercial entitled "Magnet". Especially the part where he rides by the hospital and the cancer laden children inside flock to the window to watch as he peddles by holding his fist up urging them to defy the disease and be freed from the I.V.'s they drag to the window with them.

17) I secretly envy coast to coast truck drivers.

18) I find ducks wildly funny with their angrily quacking, waddling social structures.

19) The first book I ever read was Stephen King's Pet cemetery.

20) I like to hold the door for other people but feel uncomfortable when the door is held open for me.