I remember we were out on the playground by the monkey bars and my friend Ben Weiner and I were fighting for some reason.  Ben ended the fight by kicking me in the groin.  That is the only time I have been kicked in the groin and I still remember what it feels like.  I think a man only needs to have it happen once in his lifetime and he will never forget what it feels like.  I don't think that any of the playground monitors got involved or anything.  I just had to be a man and deal with it.

I remember I went to my friend Ben Weiner's birthday party.  It was just him and me and another one of his friends named Mike.  We went with Ben's mom to Chuckie Cheese's and afterwards we went to Toys 'R' Us.  I can't remember how it happened but I think that Ben's mom let us get some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures.  I think I got Splinter.  That was a fun and memorable birthday party indeed!

I have a memory that I am not sure if it is a memory or a dream.  From the content of it though, it has to be a dream.  It was at my parents' first house.  I woke up and noticed that I didn't have my blanket with me.  I walked down to the basement to get it.  My parents had this tall picture of Charlie Chaplain down there.  When I went down there, I either heard the picture talking or it moved or something.  I was frightened and ran back upstairs.  Weird memory.

I remember we were doing a video in my class about the planets. We went outside and each person was teamed up with someone else. Each team represented a planet or the sun. We lined up outside the high school away from each other proportional to the distance between the planets. The video camera would come to each team and they would say what planet they were and give some facts. My team member was Jeff Williams. I do not remember what our planet was. I do remember that, as the video camera went to the next planet, I screamed "Mortal Kombat!" The movie trailers were out at the time and someone screams that at the end.

It was fourth grade and I was in Mrs. McCurdy's class.  She was a great teacher overall, but I take issue with one thing.  In pairs of two, the students researched a country together.  After their research, they gave reports on their country.  Wesley Derryberry and I researched Yugoslavia.  Before our report, I told the teacher that I needed to go to the bathroom.  She said I could not go.      Wesley started out and was reporting as I crossed my legs and tried to keep from peeing.  I couldn't hold it any longer.  I felt the warm liquid run down my leg and saw it begin to puddle by my feet.  It was quite embarrassing!  My friends were in that class as well as a girl I liked at the time - Elissa Shires.
    I walked over to the teacher and told her that I peed my pants.  I was sent to the office where they gave me a dry pair of pants and my dad came and picked me up and took me . . . Read More..