The other day I was cleaning out my basement and stumbled across a big stack of manila file folders. Taped inside the folders were literally hundreds of clippings of bizarre stories from newspapers. I’d forgotten about them, having stopped my humor harvesting sometime around 2005. I’ve got some real-world gems, which I’ve chosen to share on Flashback Fridays (partly because I like my readers but mostly because Friday tends to be a lazy and non-creative day for me. This is the writer’s equivalent of movie remakes).
2004: The Importance Of Second Opinions
A British man was diagnosed with cancer and told he had one year to live. So he engaged in a spending spree. He quit his job, stopped paying his mortgage, and spent his savings on dinners out and holiday trips. But then he got some even worse news. It turned out that the suspected tumor was no more than a non-life threatening inflammation of the pancreas. Now he’s suing the doctor for damages.
The moral: government run healthcare is a threat to the citizenry.
Did he at least have enough money left to buy some phallic lawn art?