But really, I am Destroyed!

It's a funny thing.

For years I told what I hyped to be the "Funniest Story Ever". It is a true story about four bikers, one of whom choked on a piece of food. As the years pass, my memory begins to fade as to what the actual details were...and embellishments only made the story worse, as it was the perfect story to begin with.

Several months ago I found an old email I had sent to my friend the day after this had happened. What made the email so great was that I had prefaced the "Funniest Story Ever" with another funny story of what had happened just before the FSE and then after the FSE, before the email. As a whole, the "Funniest Story Ever" and its companion piece, the "Never Trust an Actor" story, could have you on the floor gasping for your very last breath through all the laughter.

I had intended on copying and pasting my email account of these stories, word for word, into a single blog entry, but alas, they have been lost forever.

I do not know when nor how nor why I would ever have erased this email I had kept for, I think, 8 years. I just know that it is gone. And I'm sad. And that's funny.

This is probably how it was meant to be. A perfect story like the perfect song, to ring in your ear for a moment and then vanish into nothing as if it never happened at all. It will forever remain the "Funniest Story Ever", and I'll never be able to prove it.

Funny.