OK, Trina (Catherine Ellen King) Hira, heres Toms Top Ten Little Known Facts a la Cliffy Claven: These 10 are in no order of importance, as none of them is very important, just sayin’…. 1. Once when I was a little kid I hit a hammer to the back of a .22 bullet to see if it would go off. It did. I still have the scar on my right ankle. God must have figured he needed my head for something else in life besides thinking up that experiment. 2. When I really get laughing, I start to laugh and cry till I’m gasping for breath yelling “stop, stop!” Thank God the only one who could ever do that to me was my brother Al, God rest his soul. I’d yell, “Al, No! No!” and then he’d get started. I will always miss Al, but I don’t miss that. 3. I am a huge Neil Diamond fan too, thanks to Ruth who made me go and watch him live at the State Fair once. Once you see Neil live, you never go back. When both men and women love their act, you know they’re great. Take that Englebert Humperdink for example. Hes no Neil. 4. I could never sit still in school and was labeled ADHD before those letters ever got put together. My jumping up and down, and raising my hand whether I knew the answer or not, drove my teacher nuts, so she would give me all the dirty erasers to clean. Inhaling all that chalk dust calmed me down some. 5. In fact I was so ADHD that, in the 8th grade, our yearbook said, “Special award to Tom King for getting up from his desk to close the windows in spring and open them in the winter.” I think I was the first ADHD kid with hot and cold flashes. 6. When I worked as a soda jerk at Jordan Drug store in my teenage years I made for my-best-friends-only (we called it BFOs), a Quintuple Whammy Chocolate Malt. It was made with a cup of half and half, 5 scoops of chocolate ice cream, 3 squirts of chocolate syrup, 3 spoons of maltose sugar, and a cup of cashews. Put it on the Hamilton Beach mixer for no more than a minute. You could feel the zits pop out on your forehead when you drank it. 7. I like almost everything to eat and have never missed a meal in my entire life. But if all I had were raw broccoli, I would starve first, unless there were some Cheez Whiz around. 8. I became a math teacher because math never came easy to me, and I figured I’d be a better teacher than the ones who taught me and wondered why I didn’t understand it right the first time. It didnt always work out when Id get stuck in the middle of a proof in class and had to ask one of the smart kids. 9. Wasting anything has always driven me nuts! Even when I was a kid, I always turned the lights off when leaving a room. Even if my sisters were still in the room and afraid of the dark, I would ignore their pleas. 10. I was never able to make Trina sleepy when she was a little girl by showing more slides. She took over when I fell asleep. She is amazing. 11. I can’t count to 10 very well, but thanks to Ruth we could multiply. Sorry about that, darling girl!
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:06:56 +0000
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