I had an appointment with U of M dental school this past week, and parking is three dollars and I was broke as a joke. But, my wife found three dollars that she had had leftover from something, so I said, "Oh, praise God." And I had about a quarter tank of gas and said, “Okay, I can get out to Ann Arbor and back on a quarter tank of gas.” And as I'm pulling in and taking my little parking ticket, there's a ginormous new sign, bright red letters that says parking is now five dollars with the validation and that it is credit card only. So, I pull in with my three dollars cash that we've scraped together, literally a dollar of it was in change. And I sat in the parking lot and I start freaking out 'cause I am like "What am I gonna do? I'm gonna have to sit here until" -- well, what happens usually is the last patients -- the clinic shuts down about 4:35 but usually the parking attendant is done by 4:30. So after 4:30, they usually just lift the gate. Nobody has to pay parking that leaves at the very end of the day. But my appointment was at 2, gonna be over at 2:30, so I thought I was gonna have to sit in that parking lot 'til 4:30, 5:00 in the 88 degree heat, you know, 'cause I couldn't run my AC, didn't have enough gas to sit there and run AC. And I was just starting to cry and I was starting to have a panic attack -- anxiety attack, actually.  And then I'm going to put -- you know how our license comes in these little like -- or with our license now they give us like these little, little paper holders, you can put them in. Well, I was trying to put my parking ticket -- 'cause it's the same size -- trying to put it down in there and it wouldn't go down in there. And I pull the parking ticket back out and I stick my finger in there, just kind of pull out what's in there. And it is a crisp, five dollar bill. Now sure, I still don't have anything on a credit card, and it says credit card only, but I've got a crisp, five dollar bill. So I praise…

We have several things in our house that are family heirlooms. We have a number of things, but two of them are kind of interesting and unique. One of them is a set of four di- -- salad size plates, lunch type plates, small. And they are what's called a tea leaf design. They're off-white, and they have a little copper-colored leaf in ’em, in the design. And they are from my great-grandmother's house in Illinois. On Christmas morning in 1903 -- no, I'm sorry, 1913. 1913, my grandmother, who was at the time 18, um, and still living at home -- it was Christmas morning and they had an acetylene power plant attached to their house. And, at about 8 o’clock in the morning, while my grandmother was eating breakfast, still in her nightgown, the power plant blew up. It was Christmas morning, so it was cold. My grandmother ended up across the street in the front lawn. Their house -- half of their house had blown off. Her parents both were not in the kitchen at the time that the explosion took place, but they -- when they blew -- were blown outside but not across the street. My grandmother was fine, shaken up obviously, but fine. And they had to have their house rebuilt after that. But the only -- all the plates and all the dishes were broken except for these four little plates. And my mother had them and I have them now. I just think they're kinda cool ’cause they survived the explosion and, besides that, how many people can say that their grandmother survived a house explosion and blew herself across the street in her nightgown?

I hydroplaned for the first time in my whole life in West Virginia. We just happened to have got -- been driving over a, a spot where the water pooled, and I just wasn't aware of it ’cause you know, you think you're just driving wet roads and you've -- I’ve been driving rainy roads my whole life. I -- and all of a sudden, all of a sudden I lost control of the car, and I thought, "Oh my God. I lost control of the car." I -- the car is headed straight for hitting all of these signs. And the median strip was -- the car just went straight to the median strip off the road and went off the road and heading straight for the signs. And I'm trying to avoid -- I’m desperately trying to avoid hitting all those signs. So I'm turning the wheel, and thank God, I mean, honestly thank God there were no other cars around us ’cause the car went from the median -- the middle -- the median between the east and westbound all the way over to the other side, across the other, the other lanes. And I'm trying to avoid getting -- going off the freeway, and my kids, they're sitting on the passenger side, they can see that if the car -- the car could roll over into the ravine. I couldn't see the ravine from where I was because the rain was -- I mean, the visibility was not -- it was just raining and the kids were afraid. They said, "Mom, pull over, get off the exit. Get off." Thankfully this happened right where there was an exit to a gas station. So we just pulled over to the gas station and waited about half an hour for the rain to lighten up. And we were the first car that pulled in and about five or six other cars just came in after that. So it, it got a lot of us off the freeway, that hydroplaning right there. The kids were terrified, and we -- it was days of thunderstorms, driving through thunderstorms where the visibility was so, so bad, you could barely see in front of you. But we got home safely. We're all alive, the car didn't crash, and we thank Jesus for keeping us safe. We really thank Jesus for keeping us…