Stephen L. Thompson's Random Stories

Stephen L. Thompson’s Random Stories


A few years ago, I had a list of odd, little stories that had happened to me which I figured I could use for blog posts. The problem was I couldn’t really think of reasons to write those blogs. Yes, there was some weird thing that happened to me in school, but why write a blog about it now? But eventually, I realized I could just make it a series of blog posts about random stories from my past. Here’s a list of all the ones I’ve done.





2025

09/17/25 - Interesting driving instruction - I just did what the instructor told me to do.

08/19/25 - Missed photo - A funny photo I wasn’t able to take.

07/15/25 - Lighting a match with my thumbnail - Pretty self-explanatory.

06/18/25 - Bottle cap battles - Something stupid I did as a teenager.

05/20/25 - What happened to the pill guy? - What happened to that crazy guy I saw on TV decades ago?

04/15/25 - Infinite coupons - I got sick of a product trying to use up all the coupons I got for it.

03/18/25 - Was that a Christmas tree? - An odd thing to, possibly, see in summer.

02/18/25 - We no longer know each other - The perfect goodbye I wasn’t able to give.

01/22/25 - Taking a nice walk at work - I had to kill time somehow.

2024

12/10/24 - The 100-year tweet - Scheduling a tweet to post 100 years from now.

09/09/24 - Payphone stories - Odd stories about me and payphones. Go figure.

08/12/24 - My smoking car - An odd occurrence where I thought my car was on fire.

06/10/24 - Quick stories from school - Pretty self-explanatory.

05/13/24 - Something you don’t want to hear from your dentist - Probably not what you’re expecting.

02/12/24 - Racial awkwardness - The time I accidentally almost said something racist.

01/08/24 - The train snuck up on me - The closest I’ve gotten to giving myself a heart attack.

2023

12/11/23 - Three quick stories - Pretty self-explanatory.

11/13/23 - For want of a lug wrench - A weird story of a flat tire.

10/09/23 - The naked neighbor - I have no idea what his deal was.

08/14/23 - The burning bush - Something I came across one night I was walking around town.

07/10/23 - The Joke Off - Telling joke after joke after joke.

06/12/23 - The broken window - Memories from my first apartment.

04/10/23 - Three quick stories - Pretty self-explanatory.

03/13/23 - The teacher flipped us off - A fun day with a substitute.

02/13/23 - The power of a raised eyebrow - That time I made a woman laugh hysterically for five minutes just by raising an eyebrow.

01/09/23 - My ninety-minute, half-hour lunch breaks - Fun times when the boss was gone.

2022

12/12/22 - Make them work for it - Christmas wrapping shenanigans.

11/14/22 - I never received a bill - A weird story of why I didn’t get my phone bill.

10/10/22 - Stupid smoke detector - Hunting an elusive, dying smoke detector.

07/12/22 - Disposing of a couch - What’s a cheap way to get rid of a couch?

06/13/22 - Showing my apartment - They really wanted someone to take my apartment.

05/09/22 - Three quick stories. - Pretty self-explanatory.

04/11/22 - Trying to explode my VCR - … to test a Y2K “prediction.”

03/14/22 - New computer problems - Some odd issues that came up when I got a new computer.

02/14/22 - A horse in a vase - Who says I can’t be romantic?

01/10/22 - Playing with mercury - Fun with liquid metal.

2021

12/13/21 - I will not fall - Did I make my dreams … worse?

11/08/21 - Working with porn - Not like that.

10/11/21 - Giant penis - A Halloween story, from a college town.

08/09/21 - The headless gnome - This is just a weird story caused by a bunch of coincidences.

06/14/21 - I hit a possum with a shovel and a duck flew at me - I don’t know what more you need.

05/10/21 - What was that name? - How do you sign that?

04/12/21 - My near alien abduction - I couldn’t think of a pithy blurb for this that didn’t spoil the ending.

03/08/21 - My Yoko Ono story - It’s my Yoko Ono story.

01/11/21 - Y’all Need Jesus - A “funny” scene I saw at work that started this whole thing.




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