48 reMARKable Facts

48 Facts About the Birthday Boy:

1. Won't eat bananas, too squishy.
2. Found a dead body when he was a kid.
3. Speaks fluent Japanese.
4. Hardcore grammar cop, he'll even correct a love note.
5. Rarely reads non-fiction.                                                           (and only Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler if he does.)
   
6. Hates needles, blood, and gore-but has 3 diabetic kids!
7. He's a fish underwater, he can free dive and recover items that go overboard without even a mask and snorkel.
8. Can ride a wheely on his quad for several miles.
   
9. Has taken his wife out on a date every friday night for the last 19 years.
10. Collected sharks teeth as a kid growing up in Santa Cruz.
    
11. Hates Guacamole, too squishy, too green.
12. Expert at finding lost items his wife loses.
13. Finished a triathlon, training for more.
    
14. Goes to bed excruciatingly early, always has.
15. Serious lawn connoisseur, loves to mow and edge.
16. Chews on his straw when he's done drinking with it.
17. Loves giving family speeches.
18. Laughs hysterically at the Three Stooges, Pink Panther, Monty Python, Caddy Shack, Home Alone, Chevy Chase movies, and all other ridiculously silly comedies.
    
19. Loves to chew gum but hates it when people chew it with their mouth open.
20. Never sleeps in.
           (his motto is: "You can sleep when your dead.")
    
21. Notices details...
22. ...but Forgets peoples names.
23. Doesn't like it when people stand around with their hands in their pockets.
24. Half Southern, his mom is a Southern Bell through and through.
25. Picks up the downstairs every Sunday morning before everyone wakes up.
26. Avoids eating onions, hates it when others do and breathe near him.
27. Loves to climb steep hills on his bike.  Likes to time himself and break his own climbing record.
28. Doesn't like dirty floors and will mop or vacuum them so they're clean.
29. Doesn't realize his wife never cleans the floors cause she knows he will if she lets it go.
30. Will stop along the road and help people change a flat tire.
    
31. Hates pudding, too squishy.
32. Likes Good n' Plenty candy (we call it Bad n' Too Much).
33. Was a passenger in a car that flipped three times.
34. Listens to talk radio.
35. Can make waffles and Grilled Cheese, that's it.  Oh wait, he can also make killer reservations!
    
36. Holds a pilots license, scuba license, sailing license, ham-radio license, and an Autotopia license from Disneyland.
    
37. Gets made fun of by the rest of the family for having the ham-radio license.
38. Likes to make his kids work.
    
39. Keeps his truck annoyingly clean.
40. Owns a trailer for every occasion.  A small trailer for his riding lawnmower, a trailer for his trash, a trailer for his equipment, and a trailer for his toys.  Way too many trailers.
    
41. Doesn't like carving pumpkins, too squishy.
42. Dreams of taking his family sailing for a year.  
43. Likes to clip his kid's toe nails so they stay clean.  And paint Chloe's fingernails for her.
44. Likes black licorice (Ewww!). Loves black licorice covered in chocolate (what a horrible thing to do to chocolate!).
45. Loves to ski, snowboard, wakeboard, and ride quads.
46. Hates following behind really slow drivers on rural roads.  He and Mitchell like to compete for the record of who has followed the slowest driver all the way home.  (The record just recently got re-set by Mitchell who claims he followed behind someone going 21-the speed limit is 55!)
47. Never gets poison oak.
    
48. Celebrates his birthday at midnight so he can share it with his son whose birthday is the following day.

Happy Birthday Mark!