One of my cyber-friends told me about her grandkids sledding down a hill on an up side down car hood.  One of the kids had fallen off and got a bunch of snow in his ear.  They had to put a hot water bottle against his ear to melt the snow out of it.

This friend wanted me to write a story about this and I started a story.  I sent her the first two paragraphs I had written and she hit the ceiling.  She said she didn??™t want me to use her name in the story.  She said I could just make up a name.

I emailed madam x and told her that would by lying and I didn??™t do that in my stories.  I just used first names and no one would know it was her that the story was about.

Madam x email:

I don??™t care you can??™t use my name in your story.

My email:

1.     Are you in the witness protection program?

2.     Are you wanted by the FBI?

3.     Is the IRS looking for you?

4.     Are you ashamed of your name?

5.     Are you afraid of your neighbors?

6.     Are you just contrary?

Madam x email:

Yes to them all!

My email:

I know you??™re not ashamed of your name so that must mean you are just contrary.  I wouldn??™t write the story if I can??™t use your first name.

Madam x email:

Just do it!

O??™boy now I??™ve really got a problem.  I could go against my principles and lie or not write the story.  If I don??™t write the story what will madam x do?  Will she send me a virus that will kill my hard drive, melt my mother board and blow out the screen of my monitor?  Maybe she will hire a hit man to come to Texas and take me out.

Madam x??™s son-in-law is a colonel in the Air Force and her daughter is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force.  Madam x might have them fly over my house and drop one of those smart bombs through the window of my office.

But then she wouldn??™t get her story so maybe I??™m safe.  Well what I did is a whole ???nother story for a different time.  The name of that story will be,  ???Just Do It.???

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