I'm not going to try to top Art Thieme! He is one of my favorite storytellers, and he doesn't steal my material!

I was talking to my Uncle Curt a few years ago, and he was telling me a story about picking Blueberries way the hell and gone out on the ridge about 10 miles from his house.
Not paying much attention, he was suddenly confronted by a huge bear that stood right up in front of him and let out a blood curdling growl.
He says, "I had no gun, so all I could think to do was run.Well, I ran as fast as I could for a long long ways, and every time I looked back that damn bear was right on my heels.I couldn't run fast enough to get away, and he couldn't run fast enough to get me. That went on until I finally came to a river. It was frozen over just enough to hold me, but that bear was twice my weight, so when it got out onto the ice, it fell through and I got away."

I says, "Uncle, wait a minute, you know, I'm not as foolish as I look. Now, first you are picking Blueberries; that had to be in mid summer, then you ran across the ice? That makes no sense." He says to me, "You are right, you're not as foolish as you look, I simply left ot the fact that the bear chased me from August to Christmas."

I think I put this one into my book "Stories Told In The Kitchen"