Reid About It

After posting these nine truths with one big lie in the middle on my blog, plus a few other places including my MySpace blog, not a single person was able to correct identify on which statement I was completely full of crap. I'm not sure that's a good thing, or just an indication that my dorkiness is legendary.

Anyway, here's the skinny.

1. I have fallen asleep in a job interview.
-- True. It was a job designing headstones, and I was working 4a-1p. I nodded right out in the middle of the sales pitch.

2. I have shot footage that has been the lead story on national newscasts,
including CNN.
-- True. The Smith County Courthouse Shooting took place a block from our TV station, and I was the first person with a camera on scene. In fact, if you look at that Wikipedia page, the image of the cop on the hood of the car is from the footage I shot.

3. After discovering Dungeons and Dragons as a kid, I read the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy over a two week family vacation.
-- This is the false one. I have never read any of the the "Lord of the Rings" books, nor have I seen the movies. I'm just not interested in that sort of thing at all.

4. Although not a regular golfer, I once came within one hole of shattering a course record.
-- True, it was at a charity Putt-Putt event. I was four strokes under the course record going into the final hole, then I "Tin Cupped" it and wound up three strokes over. My putts actually left the course twice.

5. I was once the lead interview on "Larry King Live."
-- True. I broke the story on Deanna Laney, and was on LKL the next night.

6. I was once scholastically ineligible for any extracurricular activity for twelve months straight in high school.
-- True. We moved my junior year, and I moved back and lived with a friend's family for my senior year of high school. Because my parents didn't live there, I was ineligible to play football or do anything outside school.

7. I once took a roadtrip to Indianapolis with six people I had never met before.
-- True. I had a flight rained out from Chicago to Columbus, and had to split a rental car with anybody I could find. The guy who drove us through the storm was from California, and had never driven in heavy rain before. It was terrifying, but I made it to Indy where Lovely Wife Kimberly was able to pick me up.

8. I was once unconscious for 48 hours.
-- True, I was hit by a car when I was 10. Went out on a Saturday, woke up in the hospital on Monday. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

9. I was accepted into the music program at the prestigious University of North Texas twice, but never attended.
-- True. I was but a poor white boy, and couldn't raise the money to attend. I wound up working my way through college instead.

10. I have driven a company vehicle to a job interview at another company.
-- True. While doing a live show for one station, the general manager called up two minutes before I was to go on the air and reminded me he was generally unfit to be a mammal, much less to be in charge of my livelihood. While I was on the air, another station called me about another position, so I just drove over there when I was finished, and took the job. I gave my notice when I brought the van back to the station.