Back on the last Father’s Day my eldest son gifted me with a gift that has caused me just a bit of consternation… StoryWorth. I chided him at the time because it seemed backwards at the time. He gave me a gift where I did all of the work and he got the book!
As the months have gone by I’ve had a big problem with the concept. The primes is that every week you get an email with a question that is supposed to get you imagination primed and start the creative juices flowing into some kind of living history… My problem? Most of the questions leave me uninspired…
Each week I copy the question and put it in a OneNote Notebook as a page title. And every week I find myself not writing a word… What does that say about me? Am I too shallow for the deep questions they keep sending?
- “What do you consider one of your greatest achievements in life?”
- “What would you consider your motto?“
- “What is one of the most selfless things you have done in life?”
- “What is one of your favorite children’s stories?“
And on and on…
One of the few I have answered:
“Have you pulled any great pranks?”
The Great Lunch Box and the Bird Prank
A long, long time ago in a town not to far away… OK, it happened in Houston sometime back in the late eighties. I was doing a gig at the Albert Thomas Convention Center (now known as Bayou Place). We had just started laying out the floor… the trucks had been unloaded and all of the equipment was spotted between two of the freight doors on the loading dock side of the building.
It was a pleasant enough of a day for downtown Houston in the spring and all of the big rollup doors were open. There were always birds flying about inside the building because of the doors.
Just a bit before lunch time a bird flew by my head… somehow I managed to pluck the bird out of the air as it passed. So… Here I stand with a bird in hand and a bemused expression. When all of a sudden I spotted Bob Dean’s Lunchmate cooler… So that’s were I put the bird.
The look on Bob’s face at noon when he opened his lunch and a bird flew out still makes me chuckle…
