Tag: Humor
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The Time I Kinda Sorta Murdered Someone in My Volvo
I once drove a very white Volvo. It’s the only white car I’ve ever owned. I loved the pearlescent finish, but as anyone who’s ever driven a white car can attest, every drop of mud screams for attention. If you live in a place like Oregon, you may as well forget about having a clean…
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Death by Orange Flavored Foam
One evening I felt like I was coming down with a cold. I stopped into a pharmacy near my apartment in Amsterdam, and picked up a tube of 1,000 mg Vitamin C tablets. I could read just enough Dutch to know that they were orange-flavored and delicious. I left the store, and decided to chew…
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Surfer Chicks
My best friend Gary got his drivers license a few months before I did. His default car was a heinous red 1970-ish Datsun station wagon that no self-respecting 16 year old guy would be seen in. Once in a while, his dad let him drive the studly ‘72 blue Chevy Nova, but only after being…
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The Time My GPS Almost Got Me Arrested
Lessons learned from an accidental off-road adventure in the early days of GPS Most of us take GPS technology for granted, but it was once in its infancy and I was an early adopter. I had a little device that went on top of my dashboard. It couldn’t route me anywhere and it had no…
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No Spaghetti, Mom
When I turned 16, I got my drivers license almost right away, but I was told to stick close to home until I could demonstrate that I was responsible and trustworthy. I was on my way back from the library late one afternoon, with both hands on the steering wheel, when out of the corner…
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