I had just parked my expensive European sports car in my driveway when some whippersnappers came round asking if I had any tasks they could do for money. I said “sure here’s some whitewash, paint the porch”
When I can back a few hours later they said “we’ve finished painting the porch. And by the way, nice Ferrari!”
I got outbid at auction once for a Civil War relic that belonged to a Confederate colonel: a bandana that strangely had ragtime music notation scribbled across it from 35 years later. The item was listed as a Maple Leaf Rag.
Spartacus and I collaborated on an epic science-fiction novel about the intergalactic vitamin industry, complete with mad scientists, giant ants, renegade robots, sinister aliens, beings from the forty-third dimension, a rock band that travels around helping people, gay vampire ghosts, and a juggling dog. We self-published it as a Kindle book.