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Encoungters of the Strange Variety</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I thought it was time to try to turn to humor. That is a
difficult thing to do, so I hope the prompt will lend itself in that
direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">Remember, you fon’t have to
do the assignment given.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I’ll simply give a few abbreviated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">examples;</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">When I was about 17 years old, I was fishing off a sea wall
in </font><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><font size="3">St. Petersburg</font></st1:placename><font size="3">
</font><st1:placetype w:st="on"><font size="3">Beach</font></st1:placetype></st1:place><font size="3">.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">A pelican was sitting about 10 yards</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">away eyeing my catch.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">So I held up</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">a fish about a foot from stem to stern</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">and offered it to him.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">He didn’t
hesitate.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">He walked</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">in a sideways, duck-waddle fashion and
grabbed it out of my proferring hand. I never knew pelicans had serrations
along their long bills.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">I guess they are
there to keep a slimy fish from wiggling and flopping his way </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">out of the bird’s bill. Consequently, my hand
ended up slightly bloodied with long multiple scratches. Some gratitude.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">He didn’t show the iota of remorse. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">A similar thing happened with a squirrel, who are the wise
guy clowns<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">of the wild kingdom, and they
make me laugh all the time. Again, the setting was </font><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size="3">St. Petersburg</font></st1:place></st1:city><font size="3">. The squirrel was looking down
at me from the trunk of a tree outside a hospital, if my memory is corret. He
looked friendly, so I stuck my hand out to him. I don’t know why. Maybe I expected
him to shake it. Instead he came down and bit a finger. I think he thought it
was a nut.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">When he discovere it was not,
he climbed away in disgust. Who could blame him.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I was visiting a theme zoo. I think it might have been Lion
Country Saffarri in Hillsburg county<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">near </font><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><font size="3">Tampa</font></st1:city></st1:place><font size="3">.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">I was</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">a rainy day, so I took an umbrella just in case.</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br></font><font size="3">
As I went by an enclosure housing one half grown elephant, he took a shining to
my umbrella. He wanted it So, he grabbed it. What ensued was a tug of war
between a human and an elephant. Eventually I won, but the</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">umbrella was no longer an umbrella. It was
more like a straage looking pretzel.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">I
think he just wanted to play. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Once, when I was a pre-teen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">Mr. Struluwitz</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">who was a butcher
donw the street, would pay me a quarter to deliver a bloddy paper bag with</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">butchered products.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">When I pressed the customer’s doorbell, she
came to the door bare chested. Well I was a shy,inexperienced</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">young boy, and to tis day I wasn’t sure what
was happening so I just pretended there was nothing unusuall, handed her the
package and left . I’m still perplexed abgout thjat one. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Each of these stories could be embellished into<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">an elaborate</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">production. Don’t worry if people don’t laugh.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">The point is for you to get out of the box
and have some fun in the writing. You may be surprised</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">when trying to come up with tings like this,
that there were many of them in yoiur life. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I’ve got to go now. The neighbor is at the door. I think she
too offense when Barny tried to eat here cat.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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