A true story… or not? Volume II
By 
dad2twins on May 2, 2007 in Random thoughts...
This is the second installment in my “A true story or not” series. You have to figure out if this is a true story or not. Aren’t you paying attention?
When I was in college, one of the vice presidential nominees came to give a speech prior to the election. This person was a front-runner for the Democratic Party and was something of a rock star in political circles. I was not aware that this person was coming to our school. To be quite frank with you, I didn’t really care about politics at the time. Anyway, It was the evening, and I was coming out of a side door of the building where my class was being held. It was an evening class and I was in a hurry to get home. I flew out of the side door and ran right into the Vice Presidential nominee. I knock the wannabee VP right over along with myself. We both tumbled onto the ground and before I knew it, I was trampled on by several secret service agents. They had me pinned down and were yelling at me to “freeze”.
First of all, I wasn’t going anywhere because I was already on the ground. Secondly, I had no idea what was going on, because my mind was elsewhere as I was shutting down from my school mentality for the evening. Before I knew it, I was roughly picked up, separated from my backpack, and pinned against the wall with my hands spread above my head. I was being told “not to move” or I would be shot. I wasn’t moving anywher, believe me.
The Veep wannabee stood up and dusted off and ran off with a couple of secret service agents. I was left with a couple of guys who wanted to hurt me bad. They questioned me for about 15 minutes. They soon figured out that I had no intention of harming the Veep wanabee and gave me my backpack back and let me go on my way.
The next day, our school newspaper published a report about an attack on the Veep wanabee and how some student was trying to make a political statement about some issue of the day. What a load of crap. This is exactly how stories become larger than life. If anything the headline should have read ” Veep wanabee attacks student for not caring about the election.” I’m just saying.
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I say true. Was it that Stockdale guy who ran with Perot? He was a riot.
Hmm. Something doesn’t smell right. I say false.
This story is true. The only part I made up was that it never made the paper. No 15 minutes of fame for me.
Ah. That’s the part that didn’t smell right to me. So I win. Sorta.