One of Charlie's goals in life was to find a dead body. He didn't want anyone to die to fulfill his dream although there had been a few people he wouldn't have minded finding dead. He also didn't need the body to be a big, bloody mess. That would be a bonus but not a requirement. Any dead body would do.

Charlie had fulfilled some of his goals. He wanted to go parasailing off a cliff and did. His misfortune was to pick a cliff only twenty feet high. Charlie had this fear of heights. Before he could get any lift he was on the ground with two broken legs. His brother called it, "The day Charlie really went stupid".

He once passed an accident scene that he later found out had had a fatality. He hadn't seen the body, much less found it. The cops weren't too sure they had found all of it. The finding part was very important to Charlie. He didn't want to see the body. He wanted to find it.

Another of Charlie's goals was to ride the rapids. He did. He didn't ride them in a raft as he planned to do. He fell out on the first one and rode the rest freestyle. He didn't break his legs, somehow. He did break both arms and fracture his skull.

"Look on the bright side", he told his brother, "I didn't drown".

"Why do you think that's the bright side?", his brother kidded him. Charlie though he was being kidded, hopefully.

Charlie would go to the beach on vacation every year. He did the normal beach stuff- wade in the ocean, watch the babes, strikeout with the babes, get bitten by a fish and , once, a dog. Heck, he could have gotten bit by a dog at home so he wasn't too thrilled by that one. He got turned down a lot by the babes at home so that wasn't too thrilling either. It also wasn't one of his goals.

Then came the big day. He was walking along collecting seashells and no's when he saw a guy lying up on a dune. That's not allowed and got Charlie's attention. He looked at the guy and didn't see his chest moving up and down. The guy looked real pale too. He looked- dead! He looked real dead!

Charlie was estatic. He finally found his dead body. It wasn't too bad looking. No blood, no mutilation. Wow! get the police and maybe get his name in the paper. Better make sure the guy's dead first. Just to be on the safe side.

Charlie approached the body carefully. No, no breathing. Very pale. Very dead. To make sure, Charlie nudged the body with his foot. The body sat up! Charlie pissed himself. His heart started galloping. The guy looked at Charlie.

"Oh, my aching head. I wish I was dead".

"Don't we all".