quit smoking cold turkey after 25 years of puffing.

Passed an audition to play in a well known rocking band in the boston local scene..

When I gave birth to my son..........

It happened in an English class when I was 13. The teacher was a very good teacher, but he had very left-wing views, and I was very right-wing, even as I am now - though at that age, much more crudely. Consequently, we didn't like each other all that much.

One day he recounted an anecdote about a boy who had mis-read the title of Great Expectations (by Dickens) as 'Great Expectorations'. I was the only one who laughed, while the rest of the class looked blank. As the teacher realised, I was the only one who understood the word; so he invited me to tell everyone else what it meant, which I duly did.

We never actually came to like each other all that much, and I wish I could have seen his reaction to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the demolition of Gordon Brown's reputation. But from then on, there was a certain mutual respect.

When I finished construction on my daughters house.It took me (& several other tradesmen) 13 months to build it.I felt as tho I had accomplished something worthwhile & left something for my grandkids to remember me by.Current valuation on the house is $1.4 million (Au).

Hi Bob.Shouldve made myself clear.Im an alcoholic,been in recovery for many years,but over the past few weeks was really starting to struggle.I knew i was going to come unstuck,practically climbing the walls i needed a drink that badly,in a real mess.By some sort of miracle i didnt pick up the bottle and thats why coming out of the offy with just chocolate  that day was such a massive thing for me.

Ducky :)

 I was approached many years ago by a pro-stock car owner to build an engine for his car. By eighty standards the car made big horsepower. 1,400 HP. He eventually took several national pro-stock champ titles. My head was extremely swollen. Engine technology evolved and eventually the horsepower would reach nearly 3,000 HP. Although I recently paid a hefty settlement in a law suit due to and engine grenading, I'm still proud of my accomplishments.

Mine is when i went into the off license and came out with just a bag of chocolate.Means nothing to anyone else but to me it was a big thing.

While visiting my cousin, I was in the 7th grade and my cousin was in the 12th grade, She was trying to solve a math problem. She knew the answer, but didn't know how to get to the answer. She and her boyfriend had their calculators out trying to solve this problem for over an hour. When I asked them to let me see the problem, they told me that I was too young and wouldn't understand. I had to go ask my mother for a piece of paper and pencil ..............to make a long story short, I solved the problem in one to two minutes without an calculator and gave them the paper. Simple two step problem, multiplication and division.

When I was 18 and hospitalized, this man would come around and play games with the patients. When he approached me, I really didn't want to be bothered. He wanted to play the card game Speed. I lied and said I didn't know how to play. I haven't played this game in years. He insisted on teaching me. I let him. As we played the game, he realized that I knew how to play this game. I became his challenge. I won five straight games before I lost. He called himself the Speed Champ and that no body beats him. The doctors had to tell him to go and spend time with other patients because he would come to my room everyday.