Twenty-Five Random Facts About Myself

1. I once had a children’s short story published in Jack and Jill Magazine. (I was 12
at the time)

2. I thought I was 5 feet 7 inches tall until I was 30 years old. That's when I
found out I was only 5 feet 4 inches tall. I guess I had delusions of grandeur.

3. I am a Leo born on the cusp of Cancer


4. When I was younger I thought numbers were people with genders and personalities.
For example….4 was a girl, young and silly. 5 was a boy, 6 boy, 7 boy, 8 girl, 9
girl…….numbers 1 through 3 were just numbers. 5 & 6 were in love with 8 and 9 was
jealous….. (weird huh)

5. I also thought that a little man lived in my head. He was surrounded by book
shelves and sat at a desk. Every time I wanted to remember something or needed to
know something he would look it up in one of the books.

6. I didn’t fly in a airplane until I was 32 years old.

7. I’ve never been out of the country.

8. I’m afraid to drive on highways and try to only make right hand turns.

9. I had a bridge phobia when I was a kid….and older!

10. I won the good citizenship award in the 2nd and 4th grades.

11. When I was 2 years old I met Harry Truman and he patted me on the head and said,
“Well, hello darlin”.

12. My nickname as a kid was “doodle-bug”.

13. In the 6th grade I tried to remove my freckles by taping a cotton ball soaked in
O.J.’s Beauty Lotion across my nose overnight. It took the hide off my nose but
not the freckles.

14. I once got stuck on the roof of my house in an ice storm trying to put a stick in
the ventilation turban to stop it from squealing.

15. In high school the elastic in my bloomers broke while I was walking down main
street. I just stepped out of them and kept on truckin.

16. I was on tv once, the Foreman Scotty Show, and I got to ride on Woody the wonder
horse.

17. I have been afraid of the dark all my life. I carry a lighter around just in
case the lights go out.

18. When my kids asked me how the street lights know when to turn on I told them a
little tiny man lived in the light and when it gets dark he just pulls the chain
and the lights come on.

19. I have two toes on each foot that are webbed. (You know….like a duck)

20. I’ve only lived in 2 homes my entire life….my parent’s and my own.

21. There is a school named after my grandfather in Poteau, Oklahoma.

22. My great, great, grandmother was on the Trail of Tears.

23. I am 1/16 Choctaw Indian.

24. I once played touch football with James Garner.

25. I can make a 3 rail bank shot on a snooker table.