Friday, February 13, 2009

Always taking...

So there is a saying about me amongst my group of friends, and it goes a little something like this, "Always taking, always breaking, never giving back!" Normally I would deny such an accusation but today I am coming clean. In fact I have embraced this, my calling in life, which led me to appropriately nickname myself - something most people would frown upon but with the accurateness of the name most agree to it - Calamity Zak.
The following is a list of things that I have broken, messed up, or guided to a misfortune.

The blinds at the old Thomas house.
The light fixture in the basement of the old Thomas house.
The entire swing set at the Thomas house; though I was only one of many that helped in that process.
A picture frame at the old Thomas house. (So far I haven't broken anything at the new Thomas house. Though I did spill pop on the couch after Norm warned me that I would.)
Blake's Hobot book; ripped in half.
Joe's entire Han Solo trilogy bit the dust.
I have had in my possession Pickle's 3rd season of Arrested Development for about 2 years now.
I had Ali's August Rush for a year and didn't watch it once.
I once rented a movie on Blake's Hollywood account and never returned it thus charging his account $50. (It's ok, he broke two of my golf clubs.)
Pickle's sunroof. (Actually I still deny that one but she is still adamant that I did break it.)
An external drive at work.
My own heart - Ahhhh that is so gay.
The clutch on my mom's Escort.
Mark's Impala
Mark's Intrepid
A nice mattress. Norm probably didn't help by parking his van on it.
4 low E strings on my bass in a row, which is not an easy thing to do. I'm still baffled.
Bryce's Huffy. Blake helped with that one.
Bryce's CD player. Left it on the roof of my car.
A light fixture at Granger Elementary. I have a scar to prove that I paid for that one.
I once drained the transmission fluid on my car thinking it was the oil.
Two door handles on my car.
My iPod. I think that was just fate.
And I once cut off the wrong end of a door I was trying to shorten. Now there is a two inch gap at the top of door.

At the moment I can't think of anything else that I have broken or "done wrong" but I'm sure many of you who read this can and will probably bring it to my attention and that is a-ok. Maybe I'll add it unto the list. Just don't be to mean about because in my fragile state I couldn't handle the rudeness.

4 comments:

  1. One of the model cars on the top of Norm's computer desk comes to mind... I also recall in your attempt to put it back nicely you knocked an entire shelf off and had quite a time retrieving said shelf and it's contents from behind the computer.

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  2. Haha! Wow! It appears your even more clumsy than me. Usually I just seem to hit peoples injuries causing more pain....and I was banned from touching my friend Christians transformer collection. I'm really unsure how you manage to break half of that stuff though. You must have gifts from the dark side.

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  3. I am glad you are finally embracing your calling as Master of Destruction, Zak. Even if you did break my sun roof (you did! you did!) I still implore you to be around all the time. Breaking all my possessions along the way! Keep looking for the 2nd disc of AD…

    PS- LOVE your new name logo. Winner!

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  4. I like to think of you breaking stuff--it's cute.

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