Lay Lines by Carol Lay for April 26, 2021

No. My life is just a huge, meaningless void of illusion and sadness.

WOW, Carol, you have led an interesting life!

Dang, I can only say yes to #1 and #18.

A life well lived.

With #11, though … I assume she wasn’t playing Cribbage at the time, which is the only “skunked” I know?

Only number 20.

But here’s one I’d use if I ever made my own list:

Have you read the above cartoon and realized you could make a list equally improbable and almost as interesting?

A few more:

Watched two whales repeatedly mate over a period of about 30 minutes and then 15 months later read their birth announcement in the local newspaper?

Been bitten by a squid?

Knew the name of the current Pope thirty seconds before it was announced to the world?

Sold a Barnes and Noble discount card to Joanne Woodward?

Realized you were two degrees separated from the entire population of a remote British Pacific islands territory?

Randomly met and chatted for fifteen minutes with Richard Dreyfuss without acknowledging that you knew who he was?

Yeah, I could do twenty.

And, P.S. I love this comic strip feature and greatly enjoy it every time it appears. Thank you, Ms. Lay

I only scored so-so. But, I get one point for having interviewed Carol Lay.

I’ve done #2. My deepest commiserations to Ms. Lay.

I have also fallen asleep while getting my wisdon teeth extracted. Does that count?

#20, yes.

I got one, number 19. :-)

#20, and i see i’m not the only one who’d done so…

i had however, one (twice) hitchhiked to St. Paul over a crush, and drove out of SLC at 100mph.

Pretty amazing life, Carol. I’ve done almost none of those things, but once I saw an arse ho while stripping.

I have done two of those things and was “minked” on my way down Denali about 35 years ago. When I was younger than that I met Jackie and Rachel Robinson at a party my grandparents threw for my uncle who was on the Albuquerque Dukes and members of the major league club (Dodgers).

Apparently falling asleep during root canals is not unusual…LOL (yep, me too)

You hitchhiked all the way to Brooklyn and didn’t look me up so you could stop by and say hello? I’m crestfallen.

I’ve also #20ed like many of you fine folks. Didn’t hitchhike, but I did get engaged over the (early) Internet to a surfer dude in California while living in Atlanta, flew out there to meet him, and realized it wasn’t going to work. That was in the early 90s! I foiled a bank robbery once, too.

OK, you achieved your goal. I’m either incredulous or envious. I worked in a pizza parlor with Amy Tan and her husband when they were in grad school and law school respectively.

I’ve fallen asleep in a CAT scan, and while in the middle of writing a final exam. Ridden in a Mustang as one of 16 passengers while doing 100 km/h on gravel roads. Driven over 160 km/h on a 400 series highway in Canada. Picked up a car and moved it out of it’s parking spot with the help of 2 other guys. Been driving down the road when the gas tank fell off my car. All in all a boring and unremarkable life.

Carol, if you said yes to even half of those you’ve had as strange and wonderful life as me…

Can’t claim perfect score. Don’t know what day it was I found the $20, but it was during the work-week, so might be a yes.

No to 1 – 18

I can say yes to #18. I caught a black widow in a jar when I was about four-years old but my mom stepped on it. I also had several misses: 100 mph but not leaving Las Vegas: leaving a road rager behind driving my new Plymouth Duster, and I got a Weiner Whistle from the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile on 3rd street. I’m adding a bonus question that I can answer yes to: Have you ever published a Novel and had people actually buy it?

OK, I’ve got to know the story of #2.

None of the above

3. Yes, except for the Whittier Blvd part. 14. No, but I had a hummingbird nest outside my bedroom window. Little thing on the telephone extension wire. 18. Yes, and I fed a cricket to a tarantula at the Natural History Museum in DC.