Events I am Glad I Missed

Posted on August 5, 2002 in Memory Whimsies

It’s time for a little gratitude to balance out the woe I’ve been filling this blog with. Here is my personal list of places I could have been and things I could have done that I, thankfully, missed:

• Being in the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001.
  
• Being at the Altamont Concert in 1969.
  
• Being a child prostitute
  
• Contracting AIDS (knock on wood for this one)
  
• Working as a drug smuggler
  
• Being in Vietnam
  
• Becoming addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, etc.
  
• Participating in the race riots at my junior high school during the seventies
  
• Trying LSD or any other hallucinogen
  
• Serving in the military (I’ve gone to war zones, but not carrying a gun)
  
• Shaking RFK’s hand as Sirhan Sirhan shot him
  
• Talking to MLK as James Earl Ray shot him
  
• Sarajevo in 1991-1995
  
• Going to prison (could still happen if Ashcroft gets his way)
  
• Being an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience (ditto comment from above)
  
• Being condemned to death
  
• Marrying my first fiancee
  
• Attempting suicide
  
• Joining the priesthood
  
• Converting to Scientology
  
• Joining the People’s Temple and moving to Jonestown
  
• Being murdered or mugged. (fingers crossed)
  
• Being aboard the Challenger
  
• Being in Watts during the 1964 or 1992 riots

Watch for things I am glad I witnessed. Coming soon.