Been tagged. I’m it
by Tony Primerano on Sep.26, 2007, under Life
I got tagged by Kelly in blog tag. What is it? I have to tell you 8 things that you don’t know about me – and then I tag 8 different bloggers and they do the same!! Sounds like link farming too me. Hello SEO. 
8 Random things you may not know about me
- Shyness crippled me for the 1st 25 years of my life. After that I finally started getting over my social anxiety. I have never been diagnosed or medicated for this condition.
- I ripped a chunk of my face off in a biking incident while co-oping with IBM in Raleigh back in 1991. A few months later, in college, a girl came up to me and mentioned what a nice job they did fixing my clef pallet. “I don’t have a clef pallet!!” How embarrassing.
- Like Bill I am mechanically inclined and love to fix things
- I grew up poor. I didn’t live on the streets but I did qualify for free lunch at school. Of course after elementary school no one uses their lunch pass because you don’t want people to know. In middle school, I became a dealer to make lunch money. I sold lollipops and gum. not drugs!
- I paid my own way through college (with help of scholarships and co-ops) and graduated with money in the bank.
- I survived an air-embolism while scuba diving. In class they always talked about how if you had an embolism you died. So when the doctor told me that is what I had I was wondering why I was alive. My kind did not get into the blood stream. Needless to say, I don’t scuba dive anymore
- I don’t like reading. I don’t know why but I find it impossible to focus on a books. Oddly enough, I can read email and code all day long.
- Despite my reading issues, I graduated with a 3.88 for my associates degree, 3.93 for my Bachelors and 4.0 for my masters… and I still have 95% of my college text books. Why?? What does it mean? They are behind me right now taunting me.
Ok… Now I’m supposed to tag 8 people. but everyone I know has already been tagged, so I’m going to leave this as a leaf node.
October 15th, 2007 on 11:51 am
Re. #4. I wish I’d found out sooner how shameful the lunch card was. Mom described it as a kind of pre-paid lunch card, just go up to the cashier and tell her your name and lunch is all taken care of. I did not figure out what the deal was until 7th grade when I saw one of the notorious scuzzy kids (he always had an obvious gob of wax in one ear or another) tell the cashier his name and get the hole punched in his card. Plus none of my friends had that card. They either paid cash for lunch or brought lunch. They even had money for those peanut butter fudge things. I asked a friend about it years later and she said she was aware that I qualified for the free lunch. How embarrassing!! I wasn’t clever like Tony – I remember him selling candy to all the druggie kids. What a riot. Tony was so smart.
October 15th, 2007 on 11:54 am
Re. #1. I was also very shy until my mid-20s also. After I travelled out of the country for 6 months when I was 25-26 I finally had things to talk about. By now I feel like I can talk to anyone. Tony & I were really meek little kids. Do you remember hiding in the racks of leisure suits at Rogers Slack Shack? I know it was a magical place, plus we probably wanted to escape the sleazy atmosphere, plus dad’s friends then were kinda scary(it was the 70s in full swing) – is that why we were so shy??
October 15th, 2007 on 8:22 pm
I actually liked dad’s scary friends. Everyone wanted to be a tough guy or a mobster but they were all good at heart. Or at least that was my impression. I suspect our shyness was purely genetic. I think Dani has the gene but with preschool and a lot of encouragement I suspect we’ll beat it into remission.
June 14th, 2010 on 2:55 am
Fantastic blog post, I will bookmark this post in my Newsvine account. Have a awesome day.