Gene Lyons is filling in the blanks

[mooseandsquirrel]

LITTLE ROCK — Everybody’s known somebody who invented a make-believe biography. It’s always funny, often sad, occasionally pathological.

I once knew a fellow who got into a standoff with cops who wanted him to submit to a DUI test. His girlfriend stood in the driveway crying. Poor X, she lamented, was still suffering from post-Vietnam combat flashbacks.

Fed up with X’s antics, I gently suggested that she do the arithmetic. He’d been in junior high when the war ended in 1975.

Long pause. “Oh, my God,” she said.

Oh, my God, indeed.

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[Tansy_Gold]

1. I love the sound of sanity in the morning n/t