Recently, I cast my ballot in the election. I had opted to vote by mail back in July, thinking that would be easier in the pandemic than voting in person.
While I now think voting in person may have been the better way to go, my state doesn’t allow you to change your mind (you get a provisional ballot if you go in person after requesting an absentee ballot). Knowing that, I decided to use a dropbox, and since the dropbox wasn’t super far from my house (just 2 miles), I decided to walk.
Only the morning I was going to walk, it was raining. And when the rain finally slowed, I decided I would walk through the mist and fog and have a wonderful story to tell my future grandkids about how I walked 4 miles through fog and rain in a face mask, uphill both ways, to cast my ballot during the 2020 election.
I mean, if you can goose up your story, why not? As my husband’s grandmother used to say, whenever someone made a correction to her story, “It sounds better if I tell it this way.” Then she’d wink.
So, what is your best embellished story? And you don’t even have to tell what part is embellished. Just the tale. We want to hear a juicy one.