Sunday, August 14, 2005

• When I was about seven years old, I decided to find out what would happen if I pedaled my bike as fast as possible and then sharply turned the wheel. The hands-on method of learning that a body in motion stays in motion [skidding across the pavement] is not recommended.
  
• When I was twelve, I had a French teacher who made students' parents sign every graded assignment. I was a good French student but really bad at remembering to have things signed, and the teacher was kind of mean. This is how I came to forge my mom's signature to a test on which I scored 98%, thereby avoiding punishment for not having it signed, only to have the teacher post the test on the bulletin board right before Parent-Teacher Conference Night. And naturally, my parents were conscientious school conference attendees. (The covert operation of removing the test from the bulletin board mere hours before Conference Night is a story for another time!)
  
• During freshman year of college, about a dozen of us decided to take a late night trip into DC. We ended up at the statue in front of the Capital. Someone came up with the truly outstanding idea that we should climb the statue. Because who would notice twelve overcaffeinated adults climbing city property in front of a Federal building in the middle of the night?! Oh yeah, the DC police.
  
• As it turns out, cleaning the house in a state of semi-undress, particularly near the windowed front door, is pretty much an invitation for people to drop by unexpectedly. Say, for example, MY DAD.
  
• Also, I have bathed fully-clawed cats on more than one occasion.

# posted by Amanda at 7:27 PM | 3 comments

Comments:

Were you lighting a cigarette or graze a candle? How did you set it on fire?

I've never heard that before. Never thought it was possible. So long as there isn't any major thumb nail damage.

# posted by  Sam : Monday, August 15, 2005 2:36:00 PM

 

We've all done dumb things. Some of us just don't mind sharing them with others :-)

# posted by  Rude Cactus : Monday, August 15, 2005 6:58:00 PM

 

Y'all: Sam guessed it correctly. It happened while I was lighting a candle.

# posted by  Amanda : Monday, August 15, 2005 9:37:00 PM

 

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