John Jamison, my city editor at The Charlotte News for a couple of years, told me this one, a story that goes in the “Luck Beats All” category.
Jamison, who had reported for The News and for WBT-WBTV in Charlotte, said that when he was a reporter he dinged the Mecklenburg County manager over something or other. And then some other reporter followed up with another good one. Then it was Jamison turn again.
After that things got quiet. The string of good stories had run out.
At that point, with nothing in hand, Jamison said he went to see the county manager on a lark, dropped his notebook on the guy’s desk and said:
“O.K. What’s going on downstairs in social services.”
Jamison said the manager opened a drawer in his desk, pulled out a folder, handed it to him and said, “I was afraid you were going to ask me about that.”
NOTE: There is only one explanation for that kind of luck: Clean living.
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