Someone recently called me “odd” and meant it as a high compliment. I took it that way, at least. Now I know why I love this Daily Grommet team so much. Because if I am “odd,” then this collective bunch is “odd-to-the-tenth.”
Let me explain. We recently had a Clam Bake company outing for the Boston-based team, down in gorgeous Rhode Island. We played a game. (Not a creepy ropes-course-corporate-”trust” game. Never!) We tried to match a secret list of “little known facts about me” with the actual team members who self-reported individually. Here we are playing it:
Here is the list of stuff we reported on ourselves. We had to stop to eat clams and we never found out who said, “I have a small, prehensile tail, which makes bike-riding uncomfortable, and wearing spandex or lycra, out of the question.” Any guesses????
(You can see a whole bunch of photos from the outing here, on Facebook. )
Grommet Trivia Game
_______________ I was a cheerleader in college.
_______________ My first “real job” was at Double D’s.
_______________ In high school I could eat 2 Big Macs in one sitting.
_______________ My first job was cleaning horse stalls/horse barn.
_______________ My first job was slicing bologna in the deli. Then I moved on to cashier at the local grocery store.
_______________ My first job was pushing an ice cream cart selling ChipWiches at a Six Flags.
_______________ My first boss weighed over 300 pounds, wore a toupee, and was investigated by the FBI and sent to prison for tax evasion.
_______________ One of my 1st jobs was sorting pearls at a costume jewelry factory.
_______________ My great grandmother, Ann Scott, was the first woman in Massachusetts to have a motorcycle license.
_______________ I have officiated a wedding.
_______________ I was an Alpine Ski racer in college.
_______________ My first boyfriend’s name was Dave.
_______________ I refereed IM Football at college on a Work/Study grant.
_______________ I saw a dead body in one of my summer jobs.
_______________ I dance the tango, bachata, merengue, cumbia and cha-cha-cha.
_______________ I was born premie and nearly died .
_______________ I proposed to my wife in Disneyworld and we had our honeymoon there.
_______________ My spouse proposed to me the day we met.
_______________ I have lived in the same house my whole life.
_______________ I fulfilled my college science requirement by taking the following three courses: Sports Physics, Space Physics, Trees & Shrubs.
_______________ My dad was at sea on the day I was born.
_______________ My father was out to dinner drinking martinis at the Top of the Hub when I was born.
_______________ I swing dancing in my spare time.
______________ I worked for a community development organization – where one day I drove through a drug dealer’s shoot-out.
______________ I pine to spend a summer (for starters) on the Greek Island of Skiathos.
______________ My first two children were born in London in the same hospital wing, and possibly room, as Princes Harry and William.
_______________ Two of my uncles played minor league baseball.
_______________ My great-uncle was in the Guiness Book of World Records as the World’s Kite-Flying Champion
_______________ I slept in a Berber village in Morocco.
_______________ My father and grandfather dug a tunnel and rescued Jews from Nazi ghetto next to their town, and boxed with Fidel Castro.
_______________ I played the violin in the Longwood Symphony.
_______________ My first car was a tan 1983 Chevette, known throughout college as ‘the Vette”.
_______________ I race cars (sanctioned events only, no street racing).
_______________ There is a keg-orator in my basement.
_______________ I waitressed the summer after graduating from college at the Hard Rock Cafe where every hour I stood on a guitar-shaped table to sing and dance.
_______________ My grandfather’s company built the underlying structures for all the rides at Disneyland.
_______________ I worked on cruise ships in Alaska and the Caribbean teaching computers.
_______________ I like to needlepoint.
_______________ I was state track champion two years in a row.
_______________ I had my nose pierced.
_______________ I was the first girl safety patrol officer at my elementary school
_______________ I’d like my ashes scattered on the beach in Hanalei, Kauai.
_______________ My father-in-law was an inventor of cooling agent used in all Wrigley chewing gum and other products.
_______________ If I could be reincarnated, I would come back as a cat. Preferably, one of my cats.
_______________ I performed in a play with a boa constrictor around my neck.
_______________ I love heavy metal music.
_______________ I broke my leg skiing in 3rd grade.
_______________ Eminem is a constant CD in my car.
_______________ My favorite thing to do is sit on the end of the dock at the lake and read.
_______________ I won ‘Miss Personality’ in high school.
_______________ I always get mistaken for “someone I knew in high school” by people on the street.
_______________ I was the Saint Patrick’s Dance Queen my senior year. (Kind of like prom for college kids.)
_______________ As one of five children (we also had two dogs) the ONLY family car was a British Racing Green, XJ12 Jaguar. Money was scarce but we did have food and a Jaguar!
_______________ I worked on cruise ships in Alaska and the Caribbean teaching computers.
_______________ I love slalom water skiing.
_______________ I have a small, prehensile tail, which makes bike-riding uncomfortable, and wearing spandex or lycra, out of the question.
_______________ I used to demonstrate software at conventions, wearing roller skates and a ‘madonna style’ head set.
_______________ I went to two K-12 schools at the same time. One was regular primary and secondary school and the other one was music school.
______________ I once built a bridge out of toothpicks that could support over 500 lbs.
_______________ My fingerprints are on file with state and local law enforcement.
_______________ My grandfather ran away from an orphanage at the age of 12 to later become a “millionaire” in the 1920s and had 12 children.
_______________ My great, great grandfather left the family and went to back to Italy. He never came back. It’s believed that he got into a bar fight and was wanted for murder in Boston.
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