horribilisfan8184
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Won my first cake walk competition in grade school. Found out in subsequent years that was more luck than talent. However, excelled at kickball and was always picked first, except on cupcake day. That was my mom's fault but this isn't really about her. Although it took several tries in Jr. High and High School I finally won the annual lutefisk eating contest during Winterfest my senior year. Youth sports were mostly a disaster. I was QB and MLB in 5th and 6th grade, until everybody else seemed to get a lot bigger. Was a baseball SS and CF those years as well, but couldn't hit a curve. My favorite sport was hockey, and battled mom for years to play. She thought refusing to buy me hockey skates would keep a guy with figure skates off the ice. I thought I was out of luck until the neighbor's mom backdoored the crappy baker by giving me her kid's outgrown skates and gear. Damn, I thought this wasn't going to be about her. Anyway, played hockey for 15 years through college, although college was a club team with only $500/year subsidy from UM for the entire team. The highlight of those days was playing the cops in Spokane when we could goad them into waiving their league's no check no slap rules. We avoided charges for our rough "play" but my degenerate teammates' post-game drinking at the Viking set a lot of guys up for the Schick. I do have a campus rec champ t-shirt for bowling which was earned. One of my teammate's ' girlfriend's best friend's boyfriend didn't know Ferris but was a UM walk on in football, and is where my great knowledge of college football was derived.