Re: [CBQ] Facts getting in the way of a good story

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

Pete

An oldtimer, I worked with in the oil field, used to say, "The stuff I remember the best, never really happened!"

John

--- On Thu, 1/31/13, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:

From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Facts getting in the way of a good story
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 9:10 AM

 

Good job Leo...Most of my stuff comes from just looking at the old timebook and having a quick  "memory flash"..and the rest "comes naturally"...Only takes a bit of embellishment to make it really good...and who is there to "say it isn't so"

 

The great industrialist and well spoken evangelistic Christian Business man, R. G. LeTourneau was a great story teller to illustrate his messages. 

 

He was engaged in conversation one day with a group of people and was providing a bit of embellishment to what he was saying...His wife was there and said..."Now R.G. You're exaggerating that"...Reply...: "NO I'M JUST BLOWING IT UP A LITTLE SO YOU CAN SEE IT BETTER'.     LeTourneau is my daughter-in-law's grandfather so I  can get reinforcement from her when I need it to support my own  stories.

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: qutlx1 <qutlx1@aol.com>
To: cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2013 8:18 am
Subject: [CBQ] Facts getting in the way of a good story

 

Pete,

 

Last night there was nothing on TV,noone else at home and I got the itch to pull out those old time books and note calendars. The end product is 7 pages long and will get filled out with some visuals and maps in the next few days and sent off to Charlie.

 

It's a historic sketch of service on a couple Q Aurora div lines,3 character descriptions, and several true stories about a derailed waycar,eating in the waycar,pulling a Trump,runaway cars, wind blown cars,a burning waycar,near miss with high wide loads,switching manuevers, etc. All this on one job. With all those clues there's probably two guys on this list that know which job the story is about.

And I left some of the juicests stuff out to protect the guilty.

 

Leo

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