May 15, 2000

Dear Diary,

It started off normally enough. I got up,
showered, had a bite to eat and got into the car.
I drove down the road a bit and then discovered I
was out of gas. Fortunately one of the neighbors was
out watering his lawn. He pulled a tablet from his
pocket, dropped it in my gas tank and then added water
from his hose. I was off again in a trice.

Then a giant fire-breathing groundhog stepped
into the road in front of me. I calmly pushed the
special accessory button on my 1990 Chevy Cavalier
and waited for the jet rockets to deploy. I fired
them up and sailed over the groundhog.

Then, wouldn't you know it, I got to the
main intersection at Aurora Street and found that
the street was completely flooded! Well, what else
could I do: I pushed the special aqua-accessory
button on my Cavalier, switched to atomic power,
drove into the water and rolled along the flooded
road bed.

I finally hit dry land again and headed for
my office parking lot. Once in the office I sat with
my morning cup of coffee contemplating the day's
difficult commute. I nonchalantly reached over
to flip my trusty "Forgotten English" calendar to
the new day and discovered that this (May 15) is
the birth anniversary of Karl Friedrich Heironymous
Baron von Munchausen (1720).

Days like this are enough to give one a
syndrome, eh what?

--
jiM Mica JMICA@ITHACA.EDU