• Choked on a loose piece of plastic in my playpen (Age 9 months)
  • Shoplifted a Swedish fish while with my father in a tobacco store (Age 4)
  • Broke my collarbone while trying to balance on my older sister's shoulders and being subsequently dropped on the floor (Age 4)
  • Broke my older sister's nose while riding on her lap in front seat of my father's car (Age 6)
  • Upon moving into a new neighborhood, immediately went exploring vacant houses and struck gold, finding a garage full of playboy magazines going back many years. Was found, near comatose, several hours later, and soundly beaten, but a career was launched. (Age 6)
  • Got stuck in mud with a friend on the way home from school along a path we had promised never to take. My mother famously grounded me "until puberty" (Age 9)
  • While walking home from school with some friends, didn't notice that one of them had flipped off a bunch of high schoolers and then ran, leaving the rest of us to be savagely beaten (Age 10)
  • Stupidly and unwittingly repeated to the summer camp bully's face the thing everyone in the camp said about his girlfriend. Brawl ensued. And it was a Jewish camp, so it was a sad brawl. (Age 11)
  • Shared a locker with someone who was into pipe bombing as a hobby (Age 15)
nov 13 2008 ∞
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