In Honor of April Fool's Day

There's a stupid little ice breaker game called Two Truths and a Lie.  The point of the game is to tell those three pieces of information, and then other people are supposed to guess which one is the lie. 

Some people play this game stupidly--they make the lie really obvious by giving two mundane pieces of information and then a wild and crazy story that couldn't possibly be true.  Sometimes people play it smart and use a really mundane thing for the lie, which is sort of how you should do it.  It works well that way as long as your lie and one of your truths are really boring, because you trick people into thinking you're doing the aforementioned stupid thing.

I'm going to do one better--I'm going to give you three anecdotes from my weekend.



Three days ago I went out to the supermarket and ran into someone I went to high school with.  We knew each other from band class, and turned out that both of us had relocated here kind of recently.  (Not too weird, considering we're only a few hours from our hometown.)  We stood in the produce section and talked for about forty-five minutes and finally decided we would go out this Friday and catch up.  I'm sure we annoyed multiple people who wanted to buy apples.

Three days ago I took my first bike ride in a long time, but I got really tired and had to walk up most of the hills.  (The Midwest is flat sometimes, but not here.)  I bought carrot cake and went home and ate some of it, feeling like I'd deserved it after my 25-minute walk that morning and the subsequent bike ride.  It was really good carrot cake, though I would have preferred a cream cheese frosting rather than a sweet icing.  But the cake is really fantastically spicy and delicieux.

Three days ago I started having horrible pain in my face.  I went to the dentist on Monday and they got me an appointment with an endodontist.  Tuesday (today) I had a root canal.  Then I came home and had some ice cream, relishing in that I could eat it without setting off major pain.  (Of course, then all the numbing agent they shot directly into my jaw bone wore off and I had pain anyway.  But not that kind of pain.)