I had returned to Chicago and moved back into the apartment I had lived in with my parents and siblings from 1977 until I left home for...

I was on vacation in Los Angeles with my girlfriend when my cousin Michael gave me a watch with blue gemstones. We were going to play...

I was with my great-grandfather and we had some time before we were to meet my mother, so we decided to go for lunch. We parked the car...

While eating breakfast, my phone alarm sounded at eleven a.m. I couldn’t imagine what it was for as I was certain I hadn’t anything to...

I met Lisa at a cafe and I told her I had been invited to a party and she agreed to join me so we walked to the high rise where my friend...

I was in London looking for the entrance of the Underground. Once I found the entrance, I had trouble getting down the long escalator...

I got off of work early due to the new Covid-19 restrictions so I decided to take the long way home and drive down Devon Avenue and stop...

I was holiday making in a small seaside village in Spain when I ran into an acquaintance I knew from back home in the Netherlands. She...

I was with my girlfriend and son at the beach in Valencia selling bow ties on the boardwalk. I walked away from my stand for a moment to...

I went to the mechanic’s to check on the vintage, off-white Ford Mustang I had recently acquired. When I arrived, the mechanic was giving...

I had spent the night in another city where I attended a conference and went to the theatre in the evening with a group of other...

I was watching trains go by at Peterson and Ridge when I ran into an old woman who told me her friend had won a court case and had been...

Bernie Behrens and I were passengers in a car and I asked him if he remembered Martin Lohan, a German boy who came our school in second...

I had just closed my new barbershop in Beverly Hills after my first day in business. I decided to treat myself to dinner to celebrate the...

I was in Chicago and had just picked up some dry cleaning before my pending trip to Italy. I was standing on a corner at Michigan Avenue...

I was traveling in rural Spain with my grandfather in an old SEAT 600 when my grandfather said he had to use the toilet. We drove along...

I was talking to a strikingly handsome Italian man I had met earlier that afternoon when I took him away from the moving van he was...

I had just taken over day-to-day operations of a car rental service and my boss, the owner of the company, sent me to the depot to sort...

I had just returned home from Los Angeles and was jet-lagged and hungry. There was nothing to eat at home, so I decided to go out and...

My family had been living in a luxury hotel in Bucharest for over a year in a witness protection program after I inadvertently became...