Truth Be Told

My internet connection has been very intermittant lately. The cable guy came out and said that I am not getting a strong enough signal to make a connection and that he would have to have the big guys with the truck come out and work on the pole.
In plain English that means that I get to go days at a time with no internet, and there's never any way of knowing when it will go down.
So I'm going to go ahead and reveal which of my past experiences was a lie, because there's no guarantee that I will be online on monday.

1)Truth. In the late eighties I was living in Savannah, Ga, and commuting to Charleston, SC. It was about a 110 mile drive. I was working in a concrete yard and the work was pretty tough, to say the least. One Friday when I got off work I was just too tired to drive all the way back, so I parked on a little dirt patch on the side of the road and went to sleep. I was woken up at three in the morning by a group of Charleston PD. They searched me and the van and then kicked me out of the city, even going so far as to escort me to the city limit, with six police cars following me with lights flashing. I only found out later that someone in a similar van was selling stolen guns in the same area.

2)Truth. I have a fully equipped wood shop out in the garage. I oops'd two of my fingers off one afternoon a few years ago. I went to the ER and wound up having an operation to close up the ends of them. I used to type over 125 wpm, but now I can't seem to get more than 80.

3)Truth. One of the musicians I like is Rich Mullins who was famous for the hammered dulcimer. I had always wanted to play a musical instrument, so one day I decided to go ahead and start taking some lessons. I'm not very good at it yet, but I do play it.

4)Lie. I found out when I was a teenager that I was a good runner. I could pretty much run as far as I wanted without stopping. After I hit thirty, I decided to train for the marathon here in Houston. So I started running every day. I was more out of shape than I thought. I worked my way up, running a little more each day. When I got up to around seven miles a day I broke my ankle playing basketball and never ran again.

5)Truth. I once got a water bill for thirty dollars even. I bet a guy that I had a thirty dollar bill, and he took the bet. When I showed it to him, he just stood there for a few seconds looking stupid before he understood what had just happened to him. He paid the ten dollars that we had bet, and I even gave him the bill so that he could try to recoup his losses on his friends.

Congratulations to Katie-Q. The only one who guessed right.