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Affectionately known as "A Pat Story", anything that begins with "you're not going to believe what just happened!" has been greeted for a number of years by my friends on the WOB discussion list as their cue to fire up the popcorn, pull up a comfy seat and get ready to laugh. Really hard. Wisdom and harsh experience has taught that a bathroom break beforehand is also a very good idea!

It's my equivalent of the Southern "Hey, ya'll! Lookee here!" where you know the gene pool is going to be mercifully decreased by at least one. In my case, "You're not going to believe what just happened!" is my sharing the sometimes outrageously silly things that seem to follow me around.

This has been going on privately for about 15 years now. At the urging of some of my many friends out there I'm going to post occasionally with the incredibly funny and deliriously silly things that really do happen to me. Trust me, my life really can be much stranger than fiction and, to steal shamelessly from the wonderful Dave Barry, I am not making this up!

Some have been honored to be present at these hilarious debacles of mine, the most famous of which would have to be The Bullwhip episode, the mere mention of which will reduce those lucky few who were present to tears of laugher at the recollection of just how insanely funny it was. Painful as heck for me, as I'll recount in due course, but so very typically ME!

It's not my intent to make a rod for my own back by posting a lot or very regularly - in fact I'm really leery of robbing myself (and others) of the joy of this silliness by trying to make it something that it isn't. What it is, and shall be going forward, is the you're-not-going-to-believe-how-silly-this-is of my life which cannot be scripted nor forced to obey any regular schedule. It'll happen. I'll laugh. I'll write about it and hopefully you'll laugh too. Rinse and repeat.

Pat.