Let’s play a little game, shall we? I was hanging out this week with some friends and we started playing "Two Truths And A Lie"-- that ice breaker game where you tell 2 facts about yourself and one made-up one, and everyone else guesses which one is bogus. If you are reading this, you probably know me, at least sort of well. Or else you have been reading this enough that you might as well know me pretty well. These are some examples of what I used for the game, so based on what you know (slash have read), which of the following is not true:
1. I once fell asleep during a first date.
2. I jumped off a bridge... because all my friends did.
3. I got pulled over for driving too slow in a car that had no speedometer.
4. I learned to ride a bike at the age of 20.
5. The bassist of The Elms knew my name.
6. I once singlehandedly caused a car wreck, from the sidewalk, on foot.
7. I have broken each of my arms in two places.
8. I hitchhiked through Northern France.
9. I lived in the president’s suite of a frat house on frat row at Emory U.
10.I lived for two weeks in a building where the toilet had fallen through the floor.

Wait a minute, dang it... I just finished that list and realized... well... none of them are lies. Which is what makes it even better, because I could not make this stuff up if I had to. Ye Gods, what memories!
A word of explanation:
1. Doesn’t really merit an explanation. It happened in the car on the way home, I was embarrassed, but the guy handled it well.
2. I was 18, had been at college for, like, two weeks, and when there is a philosophy major talking you into it and all your new collegiate friends cheering you on from a riverbank, come on, you would totally do it too.
3. Only because I didn’t want to be going too fast. Guess where that one took place.
4. In the hall way of someone else’s frat house, and then on a parking garage roof.
5. Now there is a claim to fame. AND he gave me his pick.
6. All I did was walk down the sidewalk, and the blue-haired driver of a dark green Mazda was yelling at me instead of paying attention to the road when he ran a red light and T-boned someone else’s car. No one was hurt, which is why it is a great story.
7. Thumb: car door. Pinkie: trampoline. Elbow: horse. Wrist: bed.
8. See entry from November trip to Alsace. It was really cold... what can I say?
9. For the entirety of sophomore year, baby. Shared with a really cool roommate and some not-so-cool roaches.
10.And it was supposed to be the best building on that mountain.

I'm just saying...
~B