Brandon stories Do you know anyone to whom Interesting Things Just Happen? You know, the kind of person who is the life of the party because of all the neat stories he or she knows? I have known two:→[More:]

My son's best friend, Brandon. He and his family are some of the nicest people I know, but the things that happen to them are worthy of a Chevy Chase movie. He has loads of stories of events that have happened to him that should have killed him (I've witnessed some of these events myself). His family was actually passed by their own pop-up camper trailer on a mountain road in Colorado.

A coworker's roomate named Bob. The stories of Bob always came through my coworker. Basically, Bob was a middle-aged ex-marine that would hit on anything with two legs (but not three). He was rejected most of the time, but the times when he wasn't always made for interesting retelling by his roomate, my coworker.

In both cases, I think the events were memorable, but the storytelling really made the stories exceptionally good. Have you known folks like that?

Just curious.