100 Things - Part 4
I know I said I wouldn't but I have.
1. I don't think I'll get another 100 but thought I'd try.
2. I will post it not matter how far I get..
3. I find humour attractive.
4. I think anyone who says looks aren't important is lying. It may not be the most important thing but it's still something to consider.
5. I used to make clocks out of vinyl picture discs and sell them to my mates at school.
6. I made Brad a clock out of books.
7. We have the biggest DVD collection of anyone I know.
8. When learning short-hand I could never read back the word kitchen. It never made any sense.
9. When learning double entry accounting I got sooo bored when the lecturer went on about Pacioli that I walked out. "Do you need the toilet?" he asked, "something like that," I replied and I went and sat in the canteen as I already knew far more than him about Pacioli (I did say on list one that I was arrogant!)
10. My electronics teacher once pulled me from the student common room to his classroom by my hair.
11. About four weeks earlier I'd given him permission to do it if he had to.
12. And signed a piece a paper saying so.
13. Which was then witnessed by the other guy in the class.
14. The first injury I ever tended to was when I was about 12 and my mother sliced the to of her thumb off with a ring-pull.
15. The first incident I saw as a nurse was a man with three nails in his hand.
16. The first incident I saw with the ambulance service was a decapitation.
17. I have astigmatism in both eyes.
18. I have never really understood what that means but I have glasses for it that I only wear when my eyes feel bad or I have a headache.
19. I passed my driving test on my second go.
20. On the first test I hit a milk float.
21. My instructor was an ex police instructor.
22. He was also my paternal grand-fathers best man.
23. I've got a lump behind my knee that the doctor has said is an insect bite with an egg in it.
24. If I have it removed it'll scar for life.
25. If I leave it it'll just fall out and heal over.
26. It's been there about ten years now.
27. I don't understand quantum physics.
28. Or normal physics either actually
29. I beieve dogs see "other" things to us.
30. I steal a tea spoon from the restaurants if it's an important or memorable meal.
31. I once poked a biro into Jim Davidson's back side.
32. While working as a nurse a drunk casualty gave me his house keys to look after. He died that night. I still have his house keys.
33. I used to host my own radio show.
34. My first pet was a black and white Border Collie called Twiggy.
35. When I was 10 a doctor told me I'd grow to be 6ft and wouldn't stop growing until I was 30.
36. He was wrong on both counts.
37. I hated Queer As Folk and still think Russell T. Davies is a wanker who can't write for shit.
38. I once stopped myself from going for a wee for three days.
39. My parents used to have a carved wooden picture of a viking longboat. One day, while it was on the floor and not hanging on the wall (I don't know why) I pushed it along as though it was a real ship and had a split of wood go in one side of my hand and come out the other.
40. I was circumcised when I was 21.
41. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life.
42. I have size 11 feet.
43. I am happy for anyone to have my mobile phone number as I can refuse calls.
44. You'll be lucky if you ever have my home number.
45. I've had two stalkers.
46. When I asked an ex to describe me in one word he said "AbFab"
47. He admitted that using that was cheating so then said "bald."
48. I called him a cunt.
49. Of all my ex's he is the one I'm closest to and speak to the most.
50. Up until we moved to Ireland I had a private number plate on my car.
51. The film that scares me the most is The Elephant Man. I have to watch it in three parts and still have nightmares after each part.
52. I have no idea why.
53. I have a friend who used to come with me to nursing lectures just for the hell of it.
54. I can't have my sign language course paid for even though I'm going to need them in a few years.
55. I tried to replace a car window once (side not front or back) on my own. I tightened the mechanism up too much and the glass shattered all over me and went in my eyes.
56. While my parents were on holiday I took my fathers Range Rover out and lost the keys. I got a taxi to take me home for the spare set and drove it back home and parked it up. To this day he thinks he took the keys on holiday with him and left them there.
57. A neighbour told him I'd been out in the car. I denied it and pointed out how the neighbour hated me and would do anything to get me in trouble. He never spoke to that neighbour again.
58. While she was away I had her garage doors painted bright pink.
59. Me and my friend Sam got very drunk and slept in my car using a wet wipe each as a blanket.
60. I cannot cross my fingers.
61. I can cross my toes.
62. A psychic once told me I'd have four kids and would marry the girl I'd arrived with. I told her she was wrong as I was gay and the girl was my cousin. She told me to stop lying to her to try and catch her out.
63. There are certain songs that will always make me cry. Two of them are hymns.
64. I'd love to own a potters wheel.
65. My pottery teach was in the original Dr. Doolittle film.
66. I often wonder what they'll find when they develop a better more powerful microscope.
67. I think the same about telescopes
68. I have difficulty controlling my hand and eye co-ordination when looking in a mirror.
69. I have £1 in a Co-op bank account that has been there since 1997. I have no idea how to access it.
70. I once dated a guy who asked asked if we could rent out the spare room to a girl from his work. I agreed and a week or so later they started sleeping together!
71. We split up but for some reason stayed friends and I continued to let them live with me.
72. She asked if we could rent out the other spare room to one of the other waitresses. I agreed and a week or so later she started sleeping with her.
73. He came back to me.
74. I told him where to go so he went back to her. She said no so he started seeing the new house mate.
75. I haven't seen any of them since 98 but hear that he and the 2nd girl and still together.
76. I could spend hours looking round stationary shops.
77. I can't stand Marilyn Manson.
78. The most important discovery I made while being a venture scout is how to make alcohol.
79. It made us very ill and our venture group was closed down.
80. I love all things Egyptian and would love to cruise along the Nile and thanks to Nick am learning to read Hieroglyphics.
81. I don't like fizzy cola bottles.
82. After shuffling a pack of cards and splitting it into four piles I can make an ace appear at the top of each one.
83. One of our foster kids told his mother and the social services that I was the Godfather.
84. One of Brad's mom's foster kids told the social services that Brad was the daddy because he goes to work and comes home and sits down and I was the mommy because I do all the cooking and cleaning.
85. I make my own biscuits.
86. I can blow smoke rings.
87. I was once described as the straights gay man ever. I was the only gay person they'd met at the time.
88. I do not need to watch a film all the way though to find out if I'm going to like it and can usually tell within the first 15 minutes.
89. I am rarely wrong with the above.
90. I know that cockney rhyming slang was invented for almost the same reason as sign language. I did.
91. I'm not going to take it out but I'm ashamed about that last point as it's not really about me is it. This one is because it shows I'm ashamed.
92. It has just gone midnight and I have needed a wee since seven-ish.
93. I can only drink two pints of cider as it has an affect on me very quickly and after the first pint I can already feel myself getting drunk.
94. I think the most beautiful woman in the world is my mother.
95. I am keeping copies of all these for my web-site.
96. I am not a fan of gold jewellery but am currently wearing gold earrings.
97. When I worked on A&E the sister defended me in front of the admins and told them that I wouldn't be me if I took my earrings out. As such I was the only male member of staff allowed to wearing any earrings I wanted while working. All the others had to wearing small studs or loops.
98. I have a vast collection of watches.
99. I have never completed any of the Tomb Raider games.
100. There will not be a 5th list but there might be weekly one hundred!
