User:Kaitlin Pleas/Legs Nicoletti

Legs Nicoletti, born Chon Choseph Nicoletti, was a fighter from the outset of his birth. On December 29, 1980, Legs broke into the world in a pool of black amniotic fluid that inhibited his ability to take a first breath. He was rushed to infant ICU where numerous doctors tried in vain to resuscitate him. The doctors, having done all they could, stopped treatment, excepting the loss from this unusual birth. However, Legs’ father Yom Nicoletti refused to accept this loss, and told the doctor in a tone that does not permit rebuttal, “You’re going to try it again.” At this, Leg was forced to take matters into his own tiny hands, and became so worked up about his situation that he forced out the fluid blocking his airway, thus saving his own life for the first time. A few days later, legs was discharged and brought to his home in Saratoga, California by his mother Jan and his father Yom. There he met siblings Anthrony (Rony) and Buzie. John always looked up to brother Rony, but because of closeness in age, his sister Buzie was his closest friend.



Early Life
Even at an early age, Legs was a very independent child who filled his days with a combination of Playmobile and candy consumption. Leg’s unyielding dedication to his hobbies is best exhibited in the [[Media:Pinwheel]] incident of 86’. At this time, attempting to demonstrate his gastric strength, Legs consumed far too many chocolate-covered Pinwheel cookies. No one was harmed during the display, and the Nicoletti family was able to coin the phrase “too many pinwheels”, which expresses overzealousness of any action. Siblings, Buzie and Rony, played a vital role in the character building of Legs. Rony was a role model, while Buzie was an ally, most of the time. There was an incident during his childhood, when Rony sold Legs to Buzie, promising that Legs would fulfill her every wish for twenty-four hours. This was problematic for the always-defiant Legs, who scoffed at the thought that he could be sold and refused to bend to any of Buzie’s commands. Unhappy with the arrangement to which she had agreed, Buzie never bought Legs again, and Rony left the business of slavery. Buzie and Legs were inseparable after this point and even endured chickenpox together. Holidays in the Nicoletti household presented themselves as opportunities for Legs to express his passion for food, specifically sweets. With these numerous demonstrations, Legs aquired the nickname junkyard because of his ability to not only eat anything, but also eat large quantities of anything. This was a particularly dangerous gift during holidays dedicated to the consumption of sweets, namely Halloween and Valentines Day. When Legs would go trick or treating with his siblings, he was often asked by nosy and time wasting bowl-holders what he had chosen to dressed-up as. Legs, wanting to waste neither time nor energy on pointless questions would say, “In the bag!” Legs was willing to do whatever it took to acquire the most candy, even steal from his siblings, as was the case the following Halloween. In 1990, Legs, being a man of action, decided to test the theory that ownership is nine-tenths of the law. He cleverly dumped the contents of his siblings trick-or-treat bags into his own. When questioned about the incident, Legs played dumb, which was difficult for someone of such obvious cunning. It did not work. That same year, Legs decided to eat all of his Valentines Day candy in one sitting causing him to get sick and his father had only one comment, “too many pinwheels”. Fire trucks were the arch nemesis of young Legs. Upon hear one, even in the distance, Legs insisted that everyone around him make noise. The type of noise did not matter as long as it drowned out the sound of the screeching sirens. In an ironic twist, later in life Legs became so fond of screeching sounds that he made one his wife. Legs and his mother had a unique relationship. Being the youngest child, she naturally expected him to act with a maturity level appropriate to his age. This, however, had never been the character of Legs. One incident that clearly demonstrates Legs’ heightened sense of responsibility was when he decided to develop his own lawn mowing business. He approached several neighbors and asked if he could assist them in their landscaping endeavors for a small profit. Upon returning home with his earnings, his mother insisted on inspecting his work to ensure he had not used his charisma to swindle the neighbors. She was pleasantly surprised to see that, despite his age, his work warranted the earnings. This, among other incidences, solidified the relationship of Jan and Legs not only as mother and son, but also as partners in crime. When he started elementary school at [[Media:St. Andrew’s]], Legs befriended Flason, Rim Blurr, Canny, and Rommy. Together these young friends tormented the faculty of St. Andrews including, Mrs. Grube, Mrs. Bertolatti, Mrs. Ramage, and Mrs. Miller. One of his first brushes with authority came after he was caught hanging from the rim of the basketball hoop at recess. To ensure no repeat of the incident, the principle made Legs pay the school a portion of his hard-earned money. However, Legs’ mother came up with a solution that appeased all involved parties; the school had demanded payment, but had not specified in what form the payment was due. Legs showed up the next day at school with his payment all in pennies. Legs-1, St. Andrew’s-0. Turmoil struck the Nicoletti family in 1988 during the infamous family vacation to Maui. This trip, meant to be a family bonding experience in paradise, quickly went array after a toilet in the family condo clogged and overflowed, cascading its contents over the bathroom floor. Legs was accused and convicted of this heinous act by the family. Although guilt was never proven, Legs insists to this day that Buzie was the true culprit of the overflow. The case remains open. Throughout his life, Legs struggled with the concept of gift giving, and therefore decided to adapt the tradition to something with which he was more comfortable. Borrowing objects from the bedrooms of his family members, he found a new untapped source of free gifts. He would then wrap these possessions and re-gift them. He also had trouble with leaving gifts wrapped. On Christmas morning, he would wake up before his other family members and open all of his presents, and then try to rewrap them in the same paper to cover his tracks. Wrapping, like playing dumb, is not something that comes naturally to Legs, and his plot was quickly discovered. As a youth, Legs developed his legs through a series of sports including soccer, swimming and basketball. Swimming was his summer activity in which he was forced to participate because of his siblings’ evolvement. He did not care for the sport, like lions and tigers, legs is a land man. Legs’ also had a preexisting fear of pools because of his near death experience of falling into a pool when he was four years old. Legs was saved by his brother, cheating death for the second time. He excelled at both soccer and basketball. On the St. Andrew’s team, many of the victories can be attributed to the agility and speed at which the team was able to move because of the length of their team shorts. Like Olympic runners, there was little if any wind resistance. The success of the design caused it to be bought and patented by [[Media:Nike]].

Adolescence
After grade school, Legs attended Arch Bishop Mitti. Here his popularity was quickly established, and his place as party liaison solidified. If an event was happening, Legs knew about it. He approached partying with the same zeal and enthusiasm that he had once approached pinwheels. High school offered Legs the chance to develop his athletic skills. He left basketball in grade school, knowing he had taken it as far as it would ever go, and dedicated himself to football and soccer. In fact Legs, never one to do anything half-heartedly, became so enthralled with soccer that his family witnessed his metamorphosis from Legs Nicoletti to Legs Mexican Nicoletti, Mexican literally became his middle name. While Legs maintained his Mexican look, complete with a distinctive mexi-stach, he            excelled at soccer (Mexican football). Like most teenage boys, Legs had an infatuation with celebrity culture. Unlike his contemporaries, Legs was not satisfied with passively watching his favorite stars. Instead, he located fan mail addresses and wrote each celebrity to solicit a signed photograph. This resulted in a massive collection of star keepsake photos. Legs used his high school summers as an opportunity to expand his resume and develop his practical workforce skills. These jobs included working at [[Media:NorCal Waste Systems]], a sewage disposal plant that prided itself with dumping curious things into the San Francisco Bay and as a handyman apprentice. The apprenticeship consisted of accompanying the family’s resident stuttering fix-it-guy, Phil (Pronounced ‘ill’) to various jobs. So deep was ill and Legs’ relationship, that they developed the ability to impersonate each other convincingly. The technical skill set that Legs acquired during his time with ill is still utilized today and can be seen in his artistry of continuously fixing the flushed on his apartment toilet with a paperclip. Quick and tidy, just like ill.

College
Having lived in Saratoga his whole life, Legs wanted to remain close to family and home as he attended college. [[Media:Santa Clara University]], alma mater to both of his parents, was the obvious choice. In 1999, legs enrolled with the intention of obtaining a degree in accounting. In addition to a degree, Legs saw college as an opportunity to expand his partying legacy. Not only did he become the guy who knew about all the parties, but he himself threw many of them. Including the roofie raffel, drink your wisard staff, Mexican Halloween and the silver midget. This effort was only reinforced by his living situation. As a financially limited college sophomore, Legs moved into a three-bedroom house with exposed live wiring and a floor with questionable support capabilities. His roommates were Rob Notogadi and Jam Porist (Winner of the most fun in one year contest and grandson of the inventor of Barney). Due to uptight safety regulations and unreasonable basic quality of life requirements, the house was condemned after one year. Also this year, Legs managed to reinstate the SAE fraternity to the Santa Clara campus through a series of relentless petitioning. This gave Legs a backing organization with which to organize his parties. A new house was found at the outset of his Junior year. The house was nothing if not hospitable to the members of the fraternity. Legs would have given a key to any brother who asked had there been a front door to unlock. SAE was a giving and environmentally conscientious fraternity and even when a week without running water to help conserve the resources of the region, it may have also been because a sewer line broke. Strangely, this event helped the aroma that had settled in the house confirming the rumor that the frat’s poop did not stink.

Music and Wine
Legs found himself drawn to music, the drums specifically, at a very young age; a passion and ability that grew with age. Throughout his life, Legs has been associated with a number of bands including Village Bicycle, Epidemics, Inappropriate confidence, the Cosby Sweaters, Unattended Baggage, and the most famous Four Pumps for Grande. Legs harnessed his passion for music and his love of celebrity culture to bring to the San Jose area the Swedish pop star Gunther, most famous for his international hit The Ding Dong Song. Wine was a passion that developed later in the life of Legs, but with all the force of any other of his hobbies. To Legs, the fascination with wine did not stop with buying and drinking, but extended into the realm of making. In 2008, Legs set out to create his own wine using a patch of grapes in the Napa Valley that is close in proximity to that of his favorite wine, Gem Stone. After particularly good wine tastings, Legs has been known to buy significant amounts of wine. Such was the case at the Del Dotto winery, where Legs is now a VIP member.

Real World Life
In 2003, during his final year of College, Leg began worked as a tax accountant, but was laid off the week of graduation. The company sites the reason for the layoff as a code:164 which, according to company policy states: ‘it is wrong to cage a unicorn’. Also during this time Legs moved out of his frat house and into the barrio. The barrio, so named for its location in the last Mexican owned and occupied land in the United States. Like Mexico, the house was gross. Here his roommates included Patrick Specman, Dan Delgadio, and Ben Ardell. This house was the location of the epic annual Halloween party, which Legs hosted every year as [[Media:Elvis]]. Thanks to help from Firehouse Red, a placement agency, after graduating Legs got a job at a temp at fantastically successful Caboodle. After several years of working with Caboodle, Legs has progressed up the corporate latter and is now head of agency operations, meaning he manages relationships between ad agencies and Caboodle. Among Legs’ responsibilities at Caboodle include interviewing new candidates, a job that is not only strenuous, but requires a great deal of creative thinking. To establish the personality and work ethic of a candidate a series of questions is asked. These questions include, “how many tennis balls would fit in this room” and “if you were on jeopardy, what would be your ideal category.” Leg’s attributes his success to Under Promise, Over Perform (UPOP), a work motto that Legs developed as a guideline to ensure employer satisfaction. The success of           Legs demonstrates the success of UPOP when executed correctly. His standing at caboodle led the company to send him to India in the summer of 2009 to help expand the empire. He was shocked at the unfamiliar traditions of the Indian people such as herding sheet across busy highways, fist fighting to solve car accident disputes and the typical vehicle for the Indian family of five, the [[Media:Vesper]], a dad driving with one child on his lap, two children behind him and his wife on back.

Awards
2nd Place Please-Burke Tenis Tournament 2007

2nd Place Best Festive Shirt July 4th 2008, 2009

Corndog
In 2006, Legs became interested in Corndog Pleas, a girl with whom he had attended College. Corndog and Legs quickly realize the seriousness of their relationship. As a result, Legs slowly began to meet Corndogs family and friends. A trip to anchorage, Alaska was the first of these ventures. Although claiming the trip was based in business, it was the budding of the Corndog-Legs relationship. During this trip, Corndog’s mother, Queen Barrel, insisted that Corn and Legs go snow machining. The machine was fast, and Legs, having never ridden before, had difficulty controlling it. This is why, during that first ride, Legs had another near-death experience. Heading at full speed towards a cliff, Legs managed to steer himself into a tree to avoid certain death. The annual 4th of July Whidbey trip was another Please family event that Legs attending in his years of courting Corndog. Here Legs demonstrated his value to the family as both a drummer during Wii Rock Star and in his introduction of the card game [[Media:Hockey]]. It was during this game that he first demonstrated his skill as a magician repeatedly bring out the ‘prestige’, and as a con man with his subtle, yet effective legal cheating. In the next few years, Legs and Corndog moved to San Francisco together moving into an apartment off Union Street. Then, 2008, Legs proposed marriage to Corndog. Although uncoordinated and shrill, Corndog poses an understanding of Legs that is unprecedented. This coupled with a love of tights made the union not conceivable, but inevitable. The wedding occurred on September 26, 2009 in the beautiful Somona Valley. In attendance were the couples’ families and the closest friends. Legs, indebted to his brother for the before mentioned pool incident, asked Rony to be his best man and skinny Marie was chosen to be the maid of honor. Sadly skinny Marie was found shortly after in a dumpster in Hollywood. Following the wedding the couple honeymooned in Bora Bora where they did such activates as swimming with sharks and stingrays. Thus Corndog Pleas and Leg Nicoletti became Cornlegs Nicopleas.