Let Me Confess . . . (Volume II)

I've done questionable things. One of these was posting an article called Let Me Confess on this site several years ago. In that article I get a few things off my chest. Well, almost five years have passed, and it's high time for clearing my conscience once again. Some of these confessions are new, and some are things I neglected to mention last time. Some are disturbing, some embarrassing, and some just downright silly. You have been warned.

I have been known to sing along with music while driving. Good music, bad music, I'll sing along with it. When I sing along with "The Look" by Roxette I'll actually do both the male and female parts of the chorus.

When she was pregnant, my wife usually kept a cup of water on her bedside table. If she got up during the night, and I happened to be awake, sometimes I drank most of the water.

I know from experience that a tablespoonful of chocolate frosting is really very tasty.

I have an irrational hatred of the Buick Rendezvous.

I once wore a pair of pants backwards for several hours without realizing it.

In grade nine I once threw a classmate over a desk during the break between sixth and seventh period. He had it coming, but this is quite possibly the most violent thing I have ever done.

I haven't studied math since grade 12, and I use a calculator for most of the arithmetic I do, and I have absolutely no reason to remember it, but I can recite Pi to six decimal places.

My fondest memory of Junior High is throwing the aforementioned classmate over a desk during the break between sixth and seventh period.

Even though I'm 31, I was sad when The O.C. ended.

When my wife bakes brownies, I enjoy cleaning out the bowl. When my son is old enough to want to do this, I plan on telling him that brownie batter is bad for children because of the raw eggs, but it's just fine for adults.

When I'm looking after my son on Saturday mornings, we sometimes watch the kids' show Mr. Meaty on CBC. I find it fairly amusing. My son isn't usually all that interested.

I have taken out the entire other team while playing Red Rover. This confession deserves a full story. As far as I remember, I have only been stopped once during a game of Red Rover. As a child I was always fairly big and strong when compared to other kids my age, and since I could run fairly fast for being a stout child, I was basically unstoppable at Red Rover. The only time I was ever stopped was while playing Red Rover at youth group, at an age when most of us are probably too old to be playing Red Rover. The entire other team ran backwards to counteract my charge, and when I reached them I didn't have enough momentum to break through. However, I did manage to knock their entire line to the ground.