I was driving into the center of Sao Paulo one afternoon. As I was about to go under an overpass, a man on the overpass started throwing his clothes at the cars passing below – he was half-naked (south of the equator, if you get my drift) by the time I passed.

The craziest thing happened at my visit to a zoo in Mexico. It was a small zoo and they had real and stuffed animals all over the place. So, I saw that crocodile right behind a bamboo fence, totally motionless, with his mouth wide open. I watched him for a couple of minutes to see if he would move and he didn’t, so I poked him with a stick because I thought he was made of clay. I have never seen anything move so fast in my whole life.

I needed to change my pants after that!

I have lots more crazy things that happened to me (like that car accident we had in the middle of the night in a forest, where the driver got killed and I couldn’t get out of the car because there were lots of little two-foot snakes crawling around in the street, probably attracted by the car lights, so I had to wait in the car totally freaked out until an hour and a half later another car turned up and took me to the nearest town where we called the police) and I could go on forever with all the weird things that happen to me all the time, but I suppose the space is limited. Anyway it is all true, I seem to attract craziness. It’s a miracle I am still alive really!

I was once the first person on the scene of a car crash where a 20 y/o girl had fallen asleep at the wheel, crossed the median, and hit a Ford Explorer head on. Her car was bisected and she flew head first and backwards out of her still fastened seat belt. The two parts of her Honda Civic were 230 feet from one another and I performed CPR on her despite the visible brain matter and multiple (obviously) broken bones. Fortunately, a doctor stopped at the scene and pronounced her dead five minutes later. I stopped my resuscitation efforts and broke down. Thinking about it still bothers me greatly. Occasionally, I still drive past the spot and notice the cross in the dirt.