LiveJournal is a glorious forum for anecdotes. The likes of post fantastic and lengthy tales from their past to enrich our lives, and for us to steal and later pass off as our own.

But sometimes the length of some of the entries, astoundingly, puts people off reading them. So I suddenly had a thirst for short, punchy anecdotes. 30 words or less, to convey the essence of the story. If you have any, I would love to read them and have the tedium of my afternoon blasted away.

For instance, perhaps:

I was 6. On holiday in Bardsea I got stuck in the mud. A stranger helped me out while my dad sat in a deckchair, saying “I'm not helping him.”

or maybe

The Keatons broke down on the Paris ringroad at rush hour in an unroadworthy vehicle. The police were angry. We offered them a 12″EP to placate them. They refused it.