Raymond is like a magnet for the bizarre. This day he pulls his car up to a drive-in station to place an order for french fries. The driver of a four-wheel cuts in front of him. Now, line jumping is an irritating practice revealing that the perpetrator was not taught good manners.

Even so, the smart thing for Raymond to do was just let it go. Not Raymond. Nope! He jumps out of his car and rushes up to the guy in the SUV and gets right in his face.

No doubt Raymond thought the rude driver would do the right thing — back-off and go to the end of the line. But the "right thing" is not something Mr. Four-Wheel understands.

Raymond remembers a fleeting glimpse of something shiny. In the next instant he feels his ear burning like crazy. The guy in the SUV drives off.

Raymond’s ear hurts badly enough that he knows he’d better go home and take care of it. By the time Raymond mops the blood away he realizes his right ear is missing. Gone! Poof!

As bad as things may look for Raymond at this moment, his fortune is about to improve. After a quick examination the emergency room nurse tells Raymond to follow her. They crossed the ER to a refrigerator where the nurse takes out a plastic denture container.

"It’s my guess that this belongs to you," she says, opening the box to reveal a cleaned-up right ear. Police found the ear on the ground near the drive-in window a few feet from a blood-stained straight razor. One cop wrapped the ear in a clean handkerchief and the other dropped the razor into an evidence bag.

The guy who lopped off Raymond’s ear is arrested a few hours later for "aggravated assault." He is identified by people who were at the drive-in.

What about Raymond? He’s fine. Surgeons reattached the ear. Today his hearing is as good as new. One thing is different though. Raymond is much less confrontational.