I’VE DONE IT; HOW ABOUT YOU?

The good professor Steven Taylor has posted a list of ten things he’s done which most people haven’t. Here’s mine; I have:

1. Lived in both Dakotas, as well as all the other states generally thought of as comprising the upper Midwest (Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin).
2. Had a cemetary in my back yard. (Occupational hazard.)
3. Had dinner with a cabinet secretary (Mike Johanns, the Secretary of Agriculture, though when I dined with him, he was merely the governor of Nebraska).
4. Been quoted in an AP report about premarital cohabitation (again, occupational hazard).
5. Made the longest possible drive across North Dakota, from the far southeastern corner to the far northwestern one. (It took ten hours and trust me, eat in Minot, even if you’re not hungry.)
6. Sold more Christmas trees in a four-hour shift than any other member of the Jaycees chapter I belonged to in Nebraska.
7. Had a chance encounter with Graham Nash on a street corner in Nashville.
8. Experienced 39 flat tires in a 36-month period.
9. Studied drama in the same class as a two-time Golden Gloves national champion.
10. Completed this list of ten things I’ve done which you probably haven’t.

Your turn . . .