You could count on Joe for a lot of things. He'd come get you in the middle of the night if you got stuck on a highway in a snowstorm. Once in the pouring rain when I got a flat tire, no spare, and a hitch hiker that came out of a Stephen King novel.

But you couldn't always believe what he told you. Sure, about the women and all I figured he was blowing it up a bit--ha-ha, there's a pun there. But some was just out and out bullshit that you just couldn't swallow. (Heh--that one slipped through too! It's a whatchamacallum, a double wonton tray.)