This Is This

1. I have met up with people I first met online. False
2. My life has been saved by a first aider. True
3. I have been arrested. False - I have been cautioned
4. I have broken bones. True
5. I have flown a plane. True
6. I have interviewed a country’s president. True
7. I have been questioned by the FBI. False - I was questioned for two hours by US immigration officials
8. I was in the army. False - I went to Sandhurst for one day but changed my mind and didn’t turn up to the medical
9. I was in Iraq when the Iraq invaded Kuwait. False - I was sleeping on someone’s roof about 200 miles from the border
10. I have been interviewed on Columbian national television. False - it was Canadian
11. My parents ran a stage school. False
12. I was at the final match of the 1980 World Series. False - I have a ball from the final match of the 1980 World Series
13. I have had brain surgery. False - I had a brain scan after debilitating pounding headaches
14. I have been backstage at a Rolling Stones concert. False - it was Pink Floyd
15. I have been adrift at sea for four days. False
16. I once went missing in the woods for two days and had to survive by drinking spring water before I finally found a road, then a town before being rescued. True
17. I have raced across London in a police car at high speed, sirens wailing. True
18. I have been refused service in a bar because I was too drunk. False - which which leads me to think: just how drunk do you have to be?
19. I have done standup comedy. False
20. I co-wrote an episode of The Fresh Prince. False
21. I have written a front page article on a national newspaper. True
22. I played the saxophone on the Jerry Rafferty hit “Baker Street”. True

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Three Word Story
“You don’t understand your power over the common man,” said Alistair Campbell.

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