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Story by Marjorie Ingall
Illustrations by Bruce Day Happy Thanksgiving
George: “A car was brought in that smelled so horrible, we decided to call the
cops. We thought there might be a dead body in it. Metro’s finest pulled up, guns
drawn, and popped the trunk. Inside was a decomposing turkey. (Eventually we
learned that the driver had gone straight to the casino from the hospital, where
he’d been for three weeks following an accident. He’d forgotten to unpack
his groceries. And because he’d had facial surgery, his sense of smell was
temporarily gone. (Lucky him!)”
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Phil: “These two girls came out of a club during
graveyard shift. Each wanted her car first. One girl put
five dollars on the table; the other put down $10. The
valet looked back at the first girl, who then put down
$20. The valet looked at the second girl, who then
dropped her top! The first girl said, ‘OK, OK, bring her
car up first.’”
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George: “It was 2002, a few nights before Super Bowl XXXVI.
You remember that Super Bowl; the Patriots and the Rams
were playing. Tom Brady had just started and was sort of
an unknown quantity. So, the Patriots were something
like 14-point underdogs. It turned out to be an amazing
game, really exciting, the first one in Super Bowl history
that was won on the final play. Anyway, a couple of nights
before the game, I was working and this guy stumbled out,
kinda drunk, and I helped him into a cab. He apologized that
he didn’t have any cash and stuffed a ticket into my hand. I
didn’t think much of it. Spent the weekend quietly at home and
watched the Super Bowl with friends. A few days later, I saw
the ticket on my dresser and looked at it more carefully. It was
a long-shot money-line bet. On the Superbowl. On the Patriots.
Which meant that little piece of paper was worth $2,600.”
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