I know this thread is mostly back from February, but I never did this so I'll give it a shot:
1. At the age of 12, I was riding my bike and was hit by a pickup truck. It was on a residential street where large trees led to some major blind spots. The kicker is that it was a Domino's Pizza Truck. I guess they didn't deliver in 30 minutes! I ended up with lots of scrapes and a broken leg. Being good people who aren't greedy, my parents did not sue Domino's pizza and just had his insurance pay for the medical bills. They also got the bike fixed, but they should have trashed it. Two years later, I was riding it up a hill and the chain broke. I flew off the bike and broke my elbow. Amazingly, I do still ride bikes today.
2. On 9/11/01, I was flying back from Japan (I used to work for a travel company) and we were scheduled to arrive in LA at 8:30 am. They diverted us to Vancouver and I was stuck there for six days. It was really surreal as they didn't tell us anything and we sat on the runway for five hours. Somehow people on the plane heard crazy stuff like 50,000 people died and eight planes were hijacked, as those were some early reports. I did luck out in working for a travel company; they put me in the Fairmount Hotel in downtown Vancouver. So it wasn't the worst thing, though it was pretty crazy. I also was able to see Belle and Sebastian in concert that week, and went to a lot of movies. Flights kept getting cancelled, so to get back, I took a long bus ride to Seattle and flew on a nearly empty plane to St. Louis.
3. I worked as a college radio DJ at the University of Missouri-Columbia. At that point, I had great knowledge of the coolest indie bands. That's not really the case now. It was one of those amazing environments that I'm still trying to figure out how to recreate many years later.
4. I once interviewed John Singleton for a DVD website in possibly the most awkward conversation of all time. He answered my detailed questions with "I thought it was cool" and "Yeah" to almost everything. It was also my first interview with anyone "famous", so I was crazy nervous. I ran out of questions and just started babbling near the end. Amazingly, this interview was picked up and dropped in a book called John Singleton: Interviews. It actually doesn't read nearly as bad as I remembered it.
5. I'm one of the world's biggest fans of Australia's Midnight Oil, who I still claim is the greatest band in existence. Seeing them live at clubs in the US in 2001 and 2002 was a treat since they broke up soon after that time. I caught them six times and wished I'd gone to a lot more shows. Their singer (Peter Garrett) has gone onto politics in Australia, but they released a bunch of great albums during their 25+ year history.