Dave Smith >, if that's their real name, wrote:

>I used to hang out with a guy who had a tendency to stretch the truth. He told
>me one day that his mother opened up a can of tomatoes and found a finger in
>it. He said that she took it back to store. The store happened to be the one
>where my brother worked part time. He was the one who gave her money back for
>the can. The can was produced by a local company. A few weeks later I was
>talking to a girl who worked at the local canning plant during the summer. A
>woman on her line lost a finger. The line kept going and the finger got canned.
>
>I didn't believe my friend at first, thinking it was just another of his
>stretched truths, but then when my brother and another friend were all
>connected to the story I had to believe him.

Does your friend and/or his mother eat canned tomatoes to this day? I
don't think I would. No, I know I wouldn't.

Carol, gonna start digging that garden when the ground thaws
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon