One and only shot - random friday facts

Since I didn't have time to do an interesting or relevant post, I'm doing "Random Friday Facts".  What the heck.

• I am a ridiculously hard blood draw.  No one ever finds a vein on the first time; it usually takes at least three tries, sometimes many more, with multiple people trying.  I'm the phlebotomy equivalent of the jar that WILL NOT OPEN.  More than once, I've been sent away and asked to come back another day for try two.
  Additionally, my veins are tiny, move around a lot, and have pretty low flow due to my circulation issues, meaning that even when they do find a vein, sometimes they can't get much out of  the vein before it collapses.  Last week it took 6 tries (two tries each arm, and then both hands) to finally get enough to run a routine CBC test.  It's a very good thing I'm not at all phobic about needles.
• I'm ambidextrous.
• I have a large comic book collection, mainly split between mainstream X-Men stuff and Vertigo stuff like Transmetropolitan, Preacher, the Invisibles, and Sandman/Lucifer.  I also have a lot of  Transformers toys from the 1980s, all tastefully displayed on Pottery Barn shelving.
• I find nearly all individual sports and competitions fascinating to watch -- I'll spend hours watching gymnastics, track and field, ice skating, triathlon, swimming, diving.  But I find team sports involving a ball or puck incredibly boring.
• I paint my toenails black because they're all black anyway.  I paint my fingernails black because I like the color, and I like matching all the other nonconformists.
• I have always struggled with anything requiring fine motor skills, including typing my shoes, threading needles, drawing, and handwriting.  My handwriting was so horribly bad in middle school that I  underwent tutoring and testing for neurological problems.  When those didn't pan out, I was allowed to take typing class as a 7th grader, and then I carried a word processor with me to take my tests in school (this predates computers, obviously).  I was told repeatedly in high school that I was never going to succeed in life with horrible handwriting, since typing was only an option in certain limited situations.
  Fast forward 20 plus years, and I can safely say that becoming a fast typist at an early age was probably the most useful thing I got out of high school.
• I learned how to drive stick shift on the Florida interstate system.  I used to fly from DC to Florida each week during the winter to compete in horse shows down there (high school Monday-Thursday; show Friday-Sunday).  My trainer would pick me up at the airport in Gainesville on Thursday night and drive me the hour to Ocala, where the horse show was.  One night, trainer decided there wasn't anything more fun to do, so she informed me that I would be driving us to Ocala.  It took me 20 minutes to get out of the airport parking lot.  But a bit over an hour later, I knew how to drive stick.
• My mother fell down the stairs when she was 9 months pregnant with me. I have a rather substantial dent in the top of my head that I’m convinced is the result of this.
• I HATE HATE HATE romantic comedies and chick flicks.