re: Tell us something that happened to you that is next to impossible.

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I have driven almost 1,000,000 miles in 30 years and have hit two deer. I hit both of those deer within an eighth of a mile of each other. Years apart.

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I was remodeling a Bell Bomber (Lockheed) mill house years ago and was replacing all of the switches and outlets. I started replacing an outlet and the damned cover screw was painted over so thick (I thought) that I could not get the blade of a screwdriver in it. I started scraping off paint and the entire outlet started moving....it wasn't an outlet at all, it was a fake outlet with a box attached that was about 10 inches deep. I pulled it out of the wall and dumped it out and it was full of jewelry and watches...slap full. One of the watches was a man's watch on a leather band. There was a name engraved on the back of it. Later that day I called directory assistance and asked for a number for that name in Marietta. I got a number, called it, and explained what had happened. Turns out that the person I called was the man's son and had lived in that house in the 1950s. They had moved out of the house when he was 10. I told him what was in the box and he described a woman's class ring that was in it....it was his mother's high school class ring. I told him if he wanted the stuff he was welcome to come get it. He did and was very emotional about it when he showed up with his family. His parents were both dead and having their stuff meant a lot to him. He asked me what I wanted for the stuff, knowing any decent person would tell him nothing, which of course I did. He was very moved by it....and it gave me the warm fuzzies. It was all costume jewelry and cheap, working people watches, but for him it was a part of his family. I like to think that his kids (he had a son and daughter about 10 with him when he came to get the stuff) have that stuff now and appreciate it for what it is.....it wasn't worth much but was treasure for the son who lost his parents.

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Puff Daddy and Neil Patrick Harris?

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