Well, two of my daughters have thrown down the gauntlet of posting random things, so I feel compelled to respond. I was hoping Jan would write something, but she said after reading Emily's and Melissa's postings, all of her random traits had already been covered. I don't know if I can come up with 7 things, but I will do my level best.
1. I love really bad music. I don't know why, but it probably stems from my parents exposing me to Spike Jones when I was a little boy. I love the best music, too, but I do get a kick out of well-executed, awful music. My friend Bruce Johnson and I had a thing going for a couple of years, trying to find the world's worst music, but after sending tapes of Whitey Carson, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. Miller and Jonathan and Darlene Edwards to him, he declared me the winner! What an honor!
2. I enjoy being laughed at, but only if I am encouraging the laughter. I thought for years that I could make it as a stand-up comic, but I know now that I wouldn't really have made a good comic. Still, I know a LOT of jokes, and enjoy telling them - even when people pretend they don't want to hear another one.
3. I love books, and I have too many books. I used to dream of having a room in my house that would be my library. A room with all four walls covered in books, with a single, comfy high wing-back chair in the middle of the room. So I began early on to purchase books for my library. Unfortunately, I never got my library - just a house full of boxes full of books. I was often encouraged to give them away, but I couldn't part with them, because I thought of them as friends. But now I am beginning to realize that I need to share my friends, so I am donating books to the local library. I know that they will just turn around and sell them, but that doesn't matter to me anymore. I have to get rid of some books.
4. I am the only living Adolf Hitler impersonator that I know of. I have been told that I look a lot like Hitler (and Elvis! - talk about random!)
5. A doctor told his patient, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is - they're naming a disease after you!" Similarly, I have a disease named after me - my family calls it "Kent Brooksby Disease." The symptom is an inability to fall asleep, no matter how tired you are. I get one or two of these nights almost every week.
Well, that is the end of my random list - and it isn't the least bit funny!! Proof again that I would not have made it as a comic. I would love some feedback from my kids on random traits of mine. I am afraid that I sound really DULL!!! (Voice in the back of my head: "Of course you are dull. You are an accountant. What do you expect?")
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Hmmm... that is it? You need to go to a more shallow level to find the randomness. For example,
"I used to be pork and beans the clown as the entertainment at all of my kids' birthday parties, and then when they grew to teenagers and were embarrased by that, I would show up with my Hitler impersonation at their parties. In otherwords, I really enjoy embarrassing my kids." Like remember when I was being picked up for my first date and you and Mom were doing some foxtrot dance in the living room when he showed up? Well, I do!!! I can't think of anything else right off hand. I don't know Dad, you aren't dull... maybe just a little too normal. Yeh, that doesn't seem to fit either. I'll figure it out. Love ya!
I have one word for you dad...Kent Brooksby Disease!
I'm the same way with books! I can't stand to get rid of them. I loved reading all those things about you. I never thought of you as dull, though. You would have been a great comic.
You need to post something NEW dad!!! I am in dire need of a funny story or something!!! Can't ya help a daughter out???
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