When did you win by faking it until you made it?

When I got my first construction job, I had to go buy a bunch of gear.

Car hards, which are heavy work pants, steel toe boots, and a bunch of hand tools.

The first thing I did when I got home was take the pants out to the garage and drag them

through the dirt on the floor, stomp on them, rub some oil on them,

and pull out a few threads. The steel toes got hit with a shovel and dirtied up, and the tools

got their handles scraped and dirtied. I showed up on sight with two other guys who looked like

they were mannequins from the store. They got razzed for their shiny new gear, and they thought

I knew what I was doing.

Suckers.

I went to Chihonan World Dance Festival in Korea, which includes a massive parade down the main street of the city.

The best spot I could get where I could actually see was right at the end of the parade behind a fence.

There was a grandstand there that was filled with

VIPs, family of the mayors and officials of the sister cities. One of the guards came up to me

and ushered me past the gate and brought me up into the grandstand and sat me right behind

the mayor of Chionan. Then they started passing around free samples of products made in or near Chionan.

Afterwards they made everyone applaud the visitors and to take pictures of us, shaking hands with the mayor.

I was so lost, but I just went with it because it was such a great time.

My kids and I were in a touristy area of Mexico, and there was this fancy resort that had access to the beach. We weren't

part of the resort, but they had really nice pools. We realized that the only things designating

resort patrons were that they were all American and had specific towels. Well, we were already

American, and then we got some discarded towels. We spent two full days hanging out at the resort.

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