If you liked the last story perhaps you’ll get a kick out of the latest. Its not what I had planned to write but………let me take you back to just a few hours ago when my day ended on a very interesting note. You see, my buddy Pat Apenal called to tell me I was dead, not one of those threatening “You’re Friggin Dead Pal !” but more of a ” I just read your obituary” dead. Seems a Richard Berthiaume age 55 of N.H. retired and moved to Florida and died of natural causes……so said a local N.H. newspaper.
Pat says …”I knew right away it wasn’t you cause you would of fucken called me” I dare say he was right. But it seems a lot of people who knew me are sad tonight, and there is talk of remembering me at the next meeting of my ex gun club…of which I was treasurer for a number of years. I can’t get past my disappointment over “natural causes” however……I have always assumed I would go young….but never of natural causes. Blown across the arctic in a freak hang gliding accident….or defending the fort from marauders with my brother Legionaires…..but please don’t let it be natural causes……..so, as I was sidelined by an untimely demise, I’ll be sending you what I had planned to write in the next day or so
I wonder if I was insured
as usual,
Stiff
