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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The prompt you got accidently was obviously the first very
rough draft. Something like that should never get ut on the airways. But below
is the edited version if anyone is interested.</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">12 10 19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">Unusual Encounters 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" 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 to that direction.
Remember, you won’t have to do the given assignment.</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’ll simply give a few abbreviated examples:</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 away
eyeing my catch.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">So I held up a fish
about a foot from stem to stern 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 in a sideways, duck-waddle fashion
and grabbed it out of my proffering 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 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 an 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 of the wild kingdom, and they make me laugh all the time. Again, the
setting was <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Petersburg</st1:place></st1:city></font><font size="3">.
The squirrel was looking down at me from the trunk of a tree outside a
hospital, if my memory is correct. 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 discovered 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 Safari in <st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hillsboro</st1:city></st1:placename></font><font size="3">
</font><st1:placetype w:st="on"><font size="3">County</font></st1:placetype><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 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 umbrella was no
longer an umbrella. It was more like a strange 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">Often, when I was a pre-teen, Mr. Struluwitz, a butcher down
the street, would pay me a quarter to deliver bloody paper bags filled with
butchered products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">Once, when I pressed
the customer’s doorbell, she came to the door bare chested. Well, I was a shy,
inexperienced young boy. I wasn’t sure what was happening, so I just pretended
there was nothing unusual, handed her the package and left. I’m still perplexed
about that 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 an elaborate
production. Don’t worry if people don’t laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><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, when trying to come up with things like this,
that there were many amusing anecdotes like these in your 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"><font size="3">I’ve got to go now. The neighbor is at the door. I think she
took offense when Barny tried to eat her cat this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">I don’t know why she is so upset. Her cat
looks fine to me.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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