SPEAKER_01 0:02

Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think they're 60. Your hosts, Kat and Ron. Let's get started.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

So, Ron, you've had some stories about different incidents that occurred with the lightning.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Yeah, I've got a lot of lightning stories, and this story is actually about me telling stories about the lightning story.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

So let me uh get into that. I mean, if if if anybody's uh listened to our podcast, they may have heard me tell the story on uh Lake St. Clair. I have a I have a number of lightning stories. One I might, I think I even told the one about the house, and that's related to this story. So I was out on a business.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

So you're gonna enlighten us one more time.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

I am okay. So this is pretty funny. So uh I'm telling these stories. I'm at a business meeting, and I'm telling all my lightning stories. I have about 15 lightning stories. I have one story where I get out of the car, uh, I'm waiting in a parking lot, it's storming and storming, and I got to get into a meeting, and everybody else is in the parking lot waiting for the storm to pass on. I'm like, screw this, and I get an umbrella and I go running across the parking lot. So everybody in my office is sitting in their car waiting for the storm to go by except me, and it hits a tree like I swear to God, not even 15 yards away from me. Okay, and they thought I got hit. Okay, so I've got a whole bunch of these stories. So I'm telling these stories one evening at a party at a business meeting. We'll we'll call this manager Lisa, she's uh high-level VP at a corporation that I worked for. Great lady, fantastic lady. She's been in the sales world and kind of talks, you know, talks tough. And so she's listening to this stuff and she's like, uh, you know what I think, Ron? I think that's a bunch of bullshit. That's what I think. I think your lightning stories are bullshit. And I'm like, what what what, Lisa? What she's like, no, it's bullshit. So I'm like, uh, okay. So of course it happened to be raining that evening, and hence the reason for me telling some lightning stories. I said, you know, I start telling, like, well, you know, I've had a lot of encounters with lightning, you know. It's almost like the guy, if you've ever seen the movie with John Candy and the uh, you know, Great Outdoors, where the guy's like 66 times. It's like that's practical, that's the joke at my house, like 66 times. I used to entertain my kid by uh running outside because my wife would be screaming at me because she knows like the lightning's you know gonna come down anytime. One time I'm riding in the car, he's like, Hey Dad, when when did these lightning things happen to you? And I'm like, you know, all the time. And right then, like, and a tree got hit on Grand River and fell over in front of. So he goes, I believe you now, I believe you. And once and it hit your house once. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I'm going through all these stories, uh, we'll call say with Lisa, and she's like, Ron, this is complete bullshit. So we we're all laughing. So we're finished the dinner, and people tell a couple other stories, and she sells this guy uh, he's another manager. He's like, Can you can you bring the car up around? It's raining out, you know. So he's like, sure, Lisa, sure, because she's the head VP, senior VP, two levels up. She you know, we get up, everybody's going towards the door, he runs outside with umbrella, gets a van, you know, pulls it around. And she we open the door, and she she's she starts walking out to the car. And right when she gets to like within about six feet of the car, and he's trying to open the door, and he's like, you know, falling all over her because she's a VP.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

And she's it goes, boom, the lightning gets right by the car, right by a tree. And she jumps in the car, she goes, holy shit, you know, and she jumps in, close the door, close the door, and you know, she gets in.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Oh my god, the next day in the office, like it was like, I don't know what the hell is the deal with this guy, but I don't know how he did that. And I everybody was laughing their asses off. It was hilarious, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

So it absolutely happened. When she told the story, did you say that lightning story sounded like bullshit?

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Well, she said she was telling people, she was admitted, she's like, I told them it was bullshit, and then I almost got hit. Wow. At the time that the one hit the tree when I was in the parking lot, it was probably legitimately 10, 15 yards. There's an episode we call River Antics or something like that. I tell the the story on the Detroit River. Oh, yeah, yeah. When I uh I've told that one on another episode in the Detroit River stories. Uh honest to God, that one there were I don't even want to know, like I mean, it non-stop lightning, and they're hitting real close to us. Real close. That's when I was in the water too. Yeah. And I jumped in the water.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

I don't think that's a good thing to do. I still when there's lightning, I don't think you're supposed to jump in the water. Are you better off being the highest thing on the water? I think you're better off being in a boat than in the water. You wouldn't want to become a little lightning in your loafers.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

I uh I I jumped in the water. I decided to jump in. I really think that's worse. I don't know, but that's episode. I think we talked about things at the house or something. And I think I told the one about the one that hit the house. Hit the house. Hit my house. And I joke that when it came when the how when it hit the house, it looked like a hand came out of the microwave. Exactly. It's like and the whole, you know, that's the one I tell where the garage door is going up and down. Right out my electronics. Yeah, I've had like, I don't know, if you add all those stories up, there's like five, six stories there. And the what was so funny about it is I'm telling all those, and she calls me as bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

And then she almost got hit, and it was the best. It was hilarious, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. You would have to see it.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Yeah, she probably doesn't think it's bullshit anymore.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

No, no, no. If I called her right now, if I texted her right now and say, How about that lightning incident? She'd she'd start laughing. She'd laugh. So it's an interesting story.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Hey, everyone, thanks for listening, and we hope you tune in to Boomers on the Edge in the near future. See you bye.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

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