Whenever someone offers help to a stranger with no expectation of a reward. It could be grabbing the door for a delivery driver moving a dolly, could be someone offering to help jump start your car, or even just grabbing something on the top shelf at the grocery store for someone who’s vertically challenged.

I’m well into my 40’s and I still like to Sparta kick my cart into an empty or mostly empty corral every time.

Do I have to pick only one? I wasn’t a very bright kid.

• Willingly let someone taze my testicles in exchange for a beer
• Regularly jumped off the garage roof to demonstrate it was possible to roll and transition into running while keeping your momentum in exchange for Mike and Ike’s
• Chased black bears off the trail behind our house for no reason, usually with nothing more than a nearby stick
• Skinny dipping in a river known to be filled with leeches
• Got in a drunk argument with a raccoon, which led to my first underage drinking ticket because I refused to be spoken to in that tone
• Became friends with said raccoon and even met its kits once over stale day old bread I brought home from my high school job at Jimmy John’s
• Made a potato gun and accidentally fired it backwards, breaking the glass window in the garage
• Threw M80’s into the water near my uncle every Fourth of July when our families would to the lake
• Believed a girl I barely knew when she said she was on the pill

I think that covers most of my mid to late teens back in the 90’s. Can you believe I’m a systems engineer now?

I still want mine to have my voice so the arguments I already have with myself aren’t confined to just the voices in my head.

Crown peach whiskey with either diet 7Up or an orange/peach flavored water. Great for warm summer evenings, satisfies my sweet tooth, and relatively low on calories.