Homework: Dangerous Animals
For this week's "Homework" assignment, listeners are asked to send in their stories about dangerous animal encounters. E-mail stories to homework@npr.org, or call the Homework Hotline at 202-408-5183.
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GUY RAZ, host:
From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Guy Raz. Now time for Homework. Last week's assignment: wedding stories.
(Soundbite of song, "Here Comes the Bride")
RAZ: Twenty-two years ago, when listener Skeeter Johnston(ph) from Whitefish, Montana was about to marry her husband, Dave(ph), the two went to visit a friend who worked at a jewelry shop.
Ms. SKEETER JOHNSON (Whitefish, Montana): When we went to get our rings, we had the order form all done, and the engraving inside was supposed to say forever yours with the wedding date. Because we had a friend in the jewelry business, we didn't have to have a charge for the engraving, so it said no charge. So the day of the wedding comes, and our best man brings the wedding rings, and we're getting married, and lo and behold, inside the wedding ring it says: Forever yours, no charge.
RAZ: Needless to say, Skeeter and Dave Johnston never changed those rings.
Now to your Homework assignment for next week: dangerous encounters with animals. Did you ever get chased by a cheetah, wrestle with a rhinoceros? You can tell us your story. Call our homework hotline at 202-408-5183. Again, that's 202-408-5183. And don't forget to leave your full phone number so we can call you back.
And before we go, we didn't exactly do our homework last week. In the first feed of the show, we said Danica Patrick was the only woman competing in the Indianapolis 500. Actually, there were two others: Sarah Fisher and Milko Duno. Thanks to all of you who wrote in to correct us.
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