The next time you’re lying about your shoulder scars, say it was moose, that would be more believable, but if you insist on saying it was a bear, here are two facts to make it more believable (I’m listening to a caller to one of the podcasts I listen to, and he was attacked by a bear):
1) he didn’t get any stitches due to the possibility of infection, and
2) he HAD to get rabies shots.
He was walking with his wife, they were newlyweds, when the bear attacked. His wife—BAM!—she ran, leaving him to fend for himself. The guy fell to the ground, and curled up into a ball. The bear sniffed him a bit, and then took a nibble.
It got me to thinking about one way you can tell a story is going to end badly. When it begins like this:
“We were hiking in the wilderness, and my wife was on her period...”
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