I may be wrong but I believe this is just about the biggest lie that I have ever been told. I’ve heard some doozies and I’m sure that you have too. What makes this lie so great is that the storyteller will not back down one inch. He declares that this really happened!!
This lie is so good that I gave it a name!!! I call it Sgt Spivey’s Big Vietnam lie. This is how it goes: Sgt Spivey is a Vietnam veteran who was drafted out of the ghettos of Chicago to fight in the Vietnam War. Pvt Spivey (at that time) was a young infantry soldier on patrol with the rest of his squad. The patrol halted during the wee hours of the morning and the young private was put on guard duty. Since this whole war thing was new to him and had him kind of nervous he decided to roll a “cigarette” to help him calm his nerves. He had to put his rifle down to roll the “cigarette” and after he started to smoke he was enjoying the nicotine so much that he pretty much forgot to pick the rifle back up.
Let me interject something at this point to help you get a better understanding of the feel of this tall tale. Do you remember the commercial where a young man was eating potato chips when all of a sudden the meanest ugliest space alien that you can imagine appeared in front of him. Well this goes something like that. You may remember that the young man began to feed chips to the monster and all was well until the chips ran out. Thats when they began to have big problems. O.K. now back to the story.
All of a sudden a VC appeared out of the jungle with a rifle in his hands. Since Pvt. Spivey didn’t have his in hand his pucker factor rose about 1000%. While the Pvt was standing there speechless the VC reached over and took the “cigarette” from his hand and took a toke, oops,I meant a puff. They stood there and smoked the “cigarette” and engaged in small talk. When the “cigarette was gone the VC disappeared back into the jungle never to be seen again.
I have confronted Spivey many times about this story but he declares that it really happened. I guess anything is possible but this is just too big for me to swallow. That is too big of a lie even for for him to put on his Vietnam Veterans Ring.
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February 5th, 2009 - 4:48 pm
Today I am showing this post to Sgt (retired) Spivey who has instructed me to say to those of you who don’t believe. “Remember the Big Red One.” By the way he wants some of you who may have been there to write back and let me know that this can be a true story.