10 things I have done that you probably haven't -

Inspired by Eve and Cacciaguida.

1. Reflected on the fact that most of the answers that immediately come to mind are embarrassing or depressing.
2. Won an essay contest, and then a second contest between the winners of the first, sponsored by the Rotary Club on the many benefits of applying The Four-Way Test to all parts of life.
3. Locked myself out of my client's house while babysitting, with the baby still inside.
4. As a child, dressed up as Elijah after reading books of Bible stories.
5. Shown a .33 blood alcohol level four hours after I took my last drink. Gotten on a plane twelve hours after that. Ouch.
6. Gotten 1510 on the SAT, pre-"recentering." So that score is no longer possible. Yes, this was 11 years ago. But I'm still happy about it.
7. Eaten ostrich. Don't remember what it tasted like.
8. Won several contests in which I had to guess the number of objects in a large container. In one contest, the price for guessing the correct number of M&Ms in a jar was the jar itself. In a previous life, the jar had contained pickles. So I ate a massive jar of pickle-flavored M&Ms.
9. In sixth grade, gotten disqualified from a spelling bee for spelling a word correctly, because a teacher had written down "governor" as "govenor." I pointed it out to the adults, but they would not put me back in the contest, probably because they would have had to admit the mistake to the audience. Classy, huh?
10. Learned to hold my writing instruments incorrectly - I balance the pen on my ring finger, rather than my middle finger.