I have a scar on the outside of my right leg, just above the knee, from a slash with a corn knife (think heavy short machete or bolo knife if you aren't familiar with corn knives). I've had surgery on both knees to clean up after injuries. My left rotator cuff has been repaired, and just before last Christmas I was under the knife to repair a ruptured right distal bicep (tore the right bicep loose as the elbow). And there's a scar over my right eye, in the eyebrow.

1. I got cut on the leg by another Boy Scout when we were chopping weeds out of a field of soy beans. Unlike the embezzlement he did later in life, this was an accident.

2. I damaged my right knee by falling in the middle of a parking lot which was empty save for my car.

3. I did the rotator cuff by stumbling against a pillar outside of a restaurant in Boise.

4. Falling down the last three steps did in my knee.

5. I tried to stop a guy from falling and ruptured the bicep.

6. The scar above my eye comes from the time my mother dropped mon my head.

Much has been made of these things, especially the last.