8 Facts about me – 7 of them are TRUE, so is the other 1

OK, I lied. No, not really. I misled.

Yesterday I wrote a post that implied one of 8 facts about me was false. It never said one was false, but it implied it.

Turns out all 8 were true. Dame Wiggins of Lee was the only one who got it right. (I think she cheated.)

Here’s the inside story behind each of the eight true facts:

1. I was in an episode of McHale’s Navy.

My uncle moved to California when I was a kid and worked at Universal Studios where McHale’s Navy was filmed. While we were visiting he got me in a background shot of a crowd. I was 7 or 8 at the time. I had to hold hands with a girl next to me. Ewwwww….cooties.

2. I snuck in past the Secret Service to meet Ronald Reagan.

He was in Cincinnati running for re-election. I had to be there (downtown) to conduct some business–I had no idea he was there. When I saw a huge crowd in Fountain Square I snuck around the barricades and metal detectors trying to see what was up. Turns out I ended up in the front of the crowd and got to shake Reagan’s hand. (It was more like he touched me, but you get it.)

3. I had a band that performed concerts for people as far away as China.

Our worship band did an international worship conference for Vineyard Music in Kentucky where attendees came from all over the world, the farthest being a group from China.

4. I exploded.

Trying to light a bonfire I created a gasoline explosion and blew myself up. In the fraction of a second as I saw the fireball about to engulf me my life didn’t flash before my eyes. Instead I thought “I just killed myself. That was stupid.”

5. I won a Gazelle exercise machine in a national contest run by a nationally known food chain that they rigged so I would win.

I won’t mention the national chain, but if you have read enough of my posts you probably can figure it out. My redhead and I were regulars at the local franchise and knew all the waitresses as well as the manager. “Somehow” we won the contest. Funny co-incidence? A waitress confessed to us a year later they rigged the contest.

6. I went to High School with Cam Cameron, head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

True. South Vigo High School.

7. I have regularly taught classes in Australia, Great Britain, France, Brazil, Italy and New Zealand, but I have only been to one foreign country—and it’s not on the list.

I taught them online so my students came from a number of countries even though I never left the US. The only other country I have set foot in is Canada.

8. My redhead and I got stopped by the police on the way to the hospital to deliver our first son.

He thought we were driving erratically. We were.

Now you know the truth.

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