I have a friend in a bowling league who asked if I could sub for her. How could I pass that up? I only had to pay fifty cents to bowl three games with some great ladies! Anyways, I started out with a strike. Pretty exciting, so my next time up I got another one. Well the third is called a turkey, and I got that one too! I’ve never bowled more than three strikes in a row, so I was pretty shocked when I got a fourth one. By the next time, people were watching…so I didn’t think I could do it again, but guess what? I did! Five strikes in a row!! My nerves got to me, and the next time, I only got a spare, and then…I kind of went downhill after that. Still, at the end of the game, I ended up with a score of 198!!! I was pretty happy… it was my highest score ever! But of course, everyone kept saying “Too bad you missed 200 by 2 pins, that’s so sad.” “Too bad you couldn’t get a 200 game, oh well” and so on, and so on, and so on. I didn’t know if I should feel happy or sad…and I guess I was a little of both, because it really would have been amazing to reach that elusive score of 200. Oh well, maybe another day. 😉
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Not long ago, the police department gave me an honorary badge to wear so that it would be easier for me to be admitted to a crime scene. I was working on a case, and needed to find out if my client’s husband had a record, or any outstanding warrants. So I went to the police department, showed them my badge, and got into the records room and pulled his file. While I was looking over the file, the Police Chief walked in. This wasn’t exactly police work I was doing, so naturally, he startled me. Especially when he said. “What are you doing in here?”
As my heart was racing, I responded as truthfully as possible, and hoped I wouldn’t get into too much trouble. “Working on a case. I needed to see if this person had any outstanding warrants before I went to see him.”
“That’s smart thinking,” he said. “Hey, I’m really glad I caught you. Could you do me a favor?”
“Sure,” I answered.
He hesitated, knowing asking for my help to use my “premonitions” might seem weird, or make him look silly. But he really wanted to know what his wife was giving him for his birthday. I took a deep breath, relieved to know I was off the hook for being in the records room.
“Umm…I know this sounds crazy, but can you get any vibes for what my wife is giving me for my birthday?”
I smiled. “Sure, let me concentrate for a minute.” Of course, since I don’t really have “premonitions” I couldn’t tell him. So I listened to his thoughts to see what he wanted. He was hoping for a new fishing pole, and all the stuff that goes with it, but he didn’t think his wife would give him that since she didn’t like to go fishing. Maybe I could call her later, and tell her what he wanted.
“When is your birthday?” I asked.
“Next Wednesday,” he replied.
“Okay,” I said. Since today was Thursday, I had plenty of time to tell her. “Sorry, but all I’m getting is fish. That doesn’t make any sense, unless that’s what you’re having for dinner. Sorry.”
“No, no! That’s fine. Thanks.”
He left happy, and I left to call his wife.
When I was a senior in high school, and my older brother in college, I went to a frat party with him because he got dumped at the last minute by his date and wanted to go so bad, he asked me to fill in. How could I turn that down? That’s where I met Chris. He thought I was a student in college, and I didn’t tell him any different. It was love at first sight for me, and even though I was supposedly with a date, and he was too, he still got my number. We dated a few times and I was in heaven. When he asked what classes I was taking, I told him – just not that they were classes in high school. Of course, eventually the truth came out, and Chris was really mad that I’d lied to him – although technically, I hadn’t lied. Unfortunately for me, he didn’t quite see it that way. We didn’t see each other for six months. By then, I had graduated from high school and was a student in the same college as Chris. I found out where he would be and ‘managed’ to bump into him. The sparks were still there and we started dating again. When he got accepted to law school out of state, it was just natural that I went with him. We got married and never looked back! Does anyone out there have special stories to tell about how you met? I’d love to hear them!
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