See? I got tagged. So I guess I'm supposed to list 5 things you might now know about me. Here it goes.
1. My first "real" job was at Wendy's the summer after 11th grade. They made us watch a training video, but it wasn't as cool as this one. But the techniques were exactly the same. After they showed me the video, they put me on the grill with another guy and expected me to pretty much know what I was doing. Granted, those burger grilling skills have lasted me all these years. Always press out the corners! Unless the burger is circular... then don't because you won't find them. Couple other things I remember: free pop, having to lug the huge, heavy, disgusting garbage bags to the dumpster and trying to throw it over the seemingly 10-foot high walls, and that I was assigned a "starting" time but never a time that my shift would be done. I think they just arbitrarily let me go home when they didn't need me anymore... but the shifts usually weren't too long... 4-6 hours maybe? The next summer I worked at an arcade.
2. I was a crossing guard in 6th grade. We would take turns each week: morning, afternoon, or alternate. Well, I was afternoons and I had a really sore throat. I could barely talk. I felt a little bad asking an alternate to sub for me, but I asked a kid named Bryn (*contemplates putting full name knowing Google will lead him here eventually... ah, what the heck*) Dentinger if he would sub for me. His reply was "no" and went back to talking to his cool friends. The ensuing guarding of the cross was torture. I was a bit let down by the ordeal but deep down inside I can pretend that it helped build some character. And to just stay home and watch Ducktales if I'm sick.
3. When I was probably 4 or 5 years old I was at a restaurant in Canada with my family for dinner. That's not the whole story. I saw some kids balancing between some booths or tables so I thought I would try. I ended up slipping forward and knocking my front teeth up into my gums. The restaurant was in a mall and there was a dentist's office upstairs that happened to be open (!). They rushed me up there, checked me out and said it would be ok- the teeth would just get pushed back down. And that's what happened.
4. Along similar lines of my cousin, I pushed a kid over in 5th or 6th grade. We were at a track and field day event and we were doing a three-legged race type thing. One kid kept pushing us over (probably to get laughs from his buddy). After the three legged race was over I went over and tripped him pretty good. He stopped bugging us.
5. Musical instruments I can produce notes from: piano (lessons, 2 years?), trumpet (6 years, middle school and high school), guitar (started playing around freshman year of college... almost 10 years? Still not very good...).
Ok. Time to tag more people. Five things you might not know about:
Aaron
Cody
Woodsie
Sean
Dustin
Posted by alangage at December 19, 2006 05:07 PM
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