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let me add a Florida Man incident that happened to me here in Panhandle just 2 days ago and believe me when im driving around here the nerve endings are always on edge just waiting for that first car without its headlights on in dark of pre-dawn or fog and it doesn't take long EVER:

exiting a small supermarket lot in broad day waiting to turn onto Rt. 90 where it is more traveled i was third from the lead car a white suburban and boxing in a dented dusty small bed black truck where from inside i could just sense from the animated movements of two heads and gestures trouble was coming....sure enough the lead car wasn't fast enough and idiots in dumbass truck started backing up without checking for my Tacoma's presence but i had already anticipated and was in reverse (gotta love automatic tranny at my age!) narrowly let them out whereupon the dipshits raced around the lead car tearing off to the left in a dramatic turn and as they straightened out from it speeding up their tailgate came crashing down disgorging out in its peevish wake what looked to be the usual suspects of flattened beer cans, a rusted- out starter motor and what looked like the hide of a

recently skinned racoon.....yeah i feel ya

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I’m also not a Harry Potter person. The ride at Universal made me super nauseous! Good thing I didn’t fill up on fart flavored candy beforehand.

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I love Florida Man 🤣🤣 Also, I do believe Vegas can compete 🤣 I mean we just had the naked guy who beat up a cop and stole his cop car 🫠

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Jan 19·edited Jan 20Liked by Michael Estrin

This is impressive. You even have music in the beginning! Your speaking voice is funny, not just your writing voice. I'm heading to Florida to see my son in February. He is at WWE wrestling school in Orlando, but that's a whole other story. (You would love his funny anecdotes as a Canadian from western Canada being dropped into a different universe.) Bible, guns and God. Oh ya, and fast food as far as the eye can see.

P.S. Are you sure you're not Canadian? You might be too polite for your country.

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Jan 19Liked by Michael Estrin

Florida definitely leads the league in weird stories, but with Michigan you can hold up your right hand and point to a specific geographic location - try doing that with Florida.

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I truly thought the dude in the time share story was going to be a swinger.

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Sad to say there's a good bet the woman who propositioned you was a prostitute, her handler was driving, and they'd just dropped off a customer who was heading to his trailer buried in the middle of the woods. Peak Florida.

San Fernando Valley Man sounds like your next series of novels.

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