My dad taught me to pick locks when I was 12, which was the same year I started taking martial arts. Even though my stats aren't up to it, I'd say a 1st ed. monk.
Rogue - I am good at picking some locks, very light on my feet (used to love sneaking up on co-workers), I can talk myself out of a lot of different situations. Plus with my experience in the circus I can juggle and balance really well.
...ok. I will confess, I was never in a circus... but I can juggle and balance really well.
I actually did this with a recent game I am running. They party is actually playing themselves, having went through a portal that accidentally opened up (well, not so accidentally, but anyway...) And when they went through, they were transformed into themselves, but as player classes. Two started as fighters, and one as a bard. It's been interesting to see how differently people play when its their "real" neck on the line. They think things through a lot more than if they were playing a character.
But if it were me, I'd end up a gray witch (from Citizen Games' Way of the Witch)
Bard with lots of knowledge skills, low to no perform skills (maybe a rank or two in oration) and decent diplomacy and sense motive. I'd like to say I've got a level or two of ranger or druid, but those are probably just a few ranks in survivial.
I'm more likely just an Expert. At least Experts rock.
Gestalt Rogue/Ranger for me, with Rogue what would be considered the "primary" class (and thus the one that earned my vote). Looks like this poll sways about the same way as the other one, heh.
Gestalt because I have an uncanny ability to pick up multiple disciplines as though they are one, Rogue because I have an uncanny ability to move about without being noticed, am skilled socially, and don't really feel like a Bard. I also could never have enough skill points if I were anything else... Ranger because recently I've been swaying in that direction, though more with the combat styles and Knowledge (Nature) than actual woodsy-ness. Oh, and animal companions are cool. I'd so have a dire wolf mount/companion... Of course, I'm thinking of my homebrew 3.0 Ranger, which is cool without being a woodsy Rogue like the one in 3.5.
It's got to be the Bard for me... I am a professional musician, and going place to place singing for my supper, and running afoul of (well, let's say "skirting") the law is not that far of a stretch. Besides, the bard is the TRUR jack of all trades.
THe other one I would consider is the Paladin. As I stated in another thread, the second character I ever had was a 1 ed. Paladin ,and I just feel most comfortable playing it.