What are the Odds???

Ugg Boot

Sometimes in your life things happen that are too strange to explain. Blah, blah, blah, here's my story. I'm buying a car and had some questions that only the Department of Motor Vehicles could help me with. I haven't been into a DMV since I got my license renewed over 3 years ago. Who is sitting in the far corner of the dmv? My ex-wife. She lives 65 miles away from this dmv but lives in a town that has a dmv. She's with a guy, no problem. We're movin' on. We speak. No problem. But what are the odds of that happening? I could understand if it were in Wal-Mart or Pizza Hut or someplace we both frequent. But not at a place where you only have to go to any of their many many statewide locations for about and hour every 1460 days.

For fear's sake, I'll stop there. But, in music history:

1962, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters who wrote and first recorded "The Twist" are scheduled to perform the song for American Bandstand but have to cancel the date ... Chubby Checker is hired as a replacement to perform his version of "The Twist," which will climb higher on the pop chart than Ballard's original, twice ... it will hit number one, and then do it again a year later...

1963, 13-year-old Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips Pt. 2" becomes his first of 61 records to chart...

1969, Mick Taylor makes his stage debut with The Rolling Stones at a concert in Rome ... he replaces Brian Jones and will stay with the band until 1975 when he retires and is replaced by Ron Wood...

1970, the cops in Niagara Falls discover Chubby Checker packing pot and some other illegal substances...

1977, Elvis makes his last public appearance at The Market Square in Indianapolis ... "Can't Help Falling In Love" is the last song he sings ...

1993, two of the world's most beautiful people, Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts, become husband and wife ... the union will last for two years...

1998, Paul McCartney personally selects and arranges the flowers--45,000 of them--at Manhattan Riverside Church where friends and family gather to say farewell to his wife Linda...

1998, Johnny Cash returns to the stage for the first time since being diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome months earlier ... he walks onstage surprising Kris Kristofferson who is singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" at a Cash and Waylon Jennings tribute concert at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville ... the song was the one a young and unknown Kristofferson had hand-delivered to Cash after landing a helicopter on his lawn in a creative attempt to get his music into the hands of someone who could help him gain recognition as a songwriter...

1999, Eric Clapton auctions off 100 of his guitars to raise funds for his Crossroads Center, a drug and alchohol addiction treatment center in Antigua ... among the guitars sold is his famous "Brownie" which fetches a cool $497,500, topping the $320,000 paid for Jimi Hendrix's guitar...

2000, Michael Jackson is slapped with a lawsuit by German promotor Marcel Avram ... the suit alleges that Jackson refused to perform two scheduled events ... it is a small problem for Jackson compared with future trials he will face...

Deaths today in history:
The Who bassist John Entwistle (2002), Stefanie Ann Sargent of 7 Year Bitch (1992), Hillel Slovak of The Red Hot Chile Peppers (1988), Steve Took of T-Rex (1980), opera diva Carlotta Patti (1889)