One Sentence

OK, here's the idea, inspired by quite possibly the coolest blog I've ever seen at http://www.onesentence.org/

One sentence. Must tell a complete story. Must be true.

Have at it.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=fleming/070906

The Lions were 9-7 in 2000 and missed the playoffs by one play (a game-winning 54-yard field goal by the Bears on the last snap of the season) when owner William Clay Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford himself, pulled his own uber-Edsel and tabbed former NFL linebacker Matt Millen to run the franchise for a cool $3 million a year, despite the fact that Millen would continue to live in Pennsylvania most of the time (the Lions are located in Michigan), that he was legally blind in his eye for talent, that he wore sneakers with suits and that he possessed no actual front office experience of any kind whatsoever, zero organizational skills and, on occasion, the social couth of Britney Spears -....... more found at the above link.

 

I walked into the gym, laughing and joking, until I found out five minutes later a seventh-grade classmate had been raped and killed.

 

I'm pretty tired of ex-girlfriends with kids adding me on facebook, but, still, the one who now appears to be a high-priced hooker came as quite a surprise.

 

I had tried to enjoy my last meal from the local Chinese food place tonight before it closed its doors for good, but, fittingly, when I received my order, I found out that it was not what I ordered.

 

So foul and fair a month I have not seen in quite some time, though worse days have marked the trail of tears.

 

It was tough for a fourth-grade girl to be the first in the school to wear a real bra because, well, those snapping bruises hurt like hell.

 

Ding! Ding! Ding! Winn... uh, wait a minute... Does that make me a pedophile???

 

I once got nailed at centre ice.

 

Hemingway won this contest years ago, when asked at a dinner party to write a complete story in six words.


"For sale, baby shoes, never worn."