Lee Coddens:  

What a great idea! One can choose from 30 different "story suggestions". Now, when someone says "Get a life!", I can state that I gots me a life - up to thirty of 'em! This is Story Idea #2, apparently on the lines of "What did you want to be and how did that work out for ya." Well, let's have at it. I always wanted to be a biped when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a narcissistic idea. As it turns out, they were Martians. However, they were good parents and provided a lot of support and encouragement and I am happy to say that I am still walking upright on my hind legs to this day. When I started Grammar school (Brown School, South Peabody) I was seized with an intense desire to become invisible. Apparently possessing an inate talent for this endeavor, I'm certain that I succeeded beyond my most fervent expectations. When I stopped by the Brown School when they had a sort of open house upon the occasion of it's closing, someone asked me who I was. When I told them, they allowed as how they thought I had died quite some time ago. Mourn not for me! O,boon companions of my youth! For I am extant still. In High school, I majored in aeronautics, in that I drifted through the entire 4 years, at a level a little above most of my classmates, looking down and around and wondering how they could all so effortlessly remain anchored on the "reality plane." So, in line with the "theme" of this "theme"; What did I learn/accomplish/achieve/avoid? I learned that there are no time limits to the learning curve called adolescence. I learned that you'll probably want to avoid the same folks on the way down as you avoided on the way up. I learned that you are never as smart as you think you are nor are you ever as stupid as other people think you are. And vice-versa. I learned that being very good looking, with a great personality is no guarantor of success in life and may be,in fact, nothing more than a manifestation of a delusional thought process. And most of all; if I had one thing to tell all the kids out there: insisting on wearing a mustache and only bathing once a week w...Expand for more