Man talks reveals his Glory Days were a long consecutive waste-bin tossing streak

'Glory Days' goes the song .... the ones that pass in the wink of a young girl's eye, according to Bruce (Springsteen, as if you didn't know). The song has left Arnold Nugent of Baltimore wondering about just when his Glory Days really were. "I mean, I was selected the Boy Most Likely to Succeed in my yearbook at high school. But we all know how that turned out. Boy Most Likely to Fail, more likely. It's usually like that: actually it's the dumbest or shyest or most-under-the-radar guys who turn out to be successful. But then again, what is success? Just having a good income, a loving wife and two beautiful kids doesn't necessarily mean you're successful. After all who knows what's really going on behind those freshly painted walls and perfectly tended gardens? Well, no one of course, until some gruesome murder occurs and the wife ends up in the boot of a burning car! Anyway, I digress. As far as my Glory Days are concerned, it's tempting to say it was when I got the top billing in the school book. But because success is hard to measure I've been delving into other periods in my life and, after much agonising, have settled on my own personal Glory Days to be the uninterrupted streak of landing crumpled up paper balls into the waste-bin across the bedroom. It dawned on me that I was just one of those untapped talents that never made the big time. I reckon I could of, if I'd known I possessed such a high level of hand-eye coordination. Look, we can't all be Jens Stoltenberg, that Danish or Norwegian, whatever, dude who is the head honcho of NATO. I mean he just got lucky: his party have just lost the election, so he is out of a job, and suddenly Merkel and Obama get together and call him to offer the post. Is he gonna refuse something like that? No way. So I could of got lucky too but anyway, I know about my waste-bin streak, even if nobody else does. It was crazy man. I just kept on connecting with that bin. It was like 50 or 60 consecutive. There were even a couple that caught the edge but still went in. I couldn't go wrong. How many people on God's Earth can claim such a sequence? Anyway, Glory Days or not, you're not gonna find me in some pub harking back to that time and boring every one with my story, like Bruce in his song."