Adrian’s dream job after college was to become a Wall Street stockbroker. He went about pursuing this ambition by taking a job at the Waldorf-Astoria as a porter hoping to make contacts with hotel guests who’ve already succeeded in his chosen field as he takes their luggage to their rooms. Sure enough he does. A principal at the city’s premier brokerage firm is a frequent guest who eventually invites our wannabe stockbroker Adrian to travel with him to Brazil’s Amazon Forest while serving as the expedition’s porter.   …

Q is a general surgeon whose hobby is adapting gadgets for his intricate surgeries. In fact, his reputation as a creative sort spreads far and wide and he often is invited to speak at national meetings. To impress, he frequently appears at these meetings driving his Aston Martin with an ejector seat and license plate, 007.  …

While Swifties listen to song lyrics about letting go of former boyfriends, their counterparts from long ago, their parents, now worry more about “holding on” to what they have, specifically, bowel obstruction due to a volvulus. . …

Lucky Chucky is born with blind luck; he wins at every game of chance he tries. As a senior in high school he wins the state Lotto, which provides him with additional funds to engage in serious betting. He moves to Las Vegas where Chucky becomes a regular at the roulette tables, always winning big paydays and often breaks the house bank. …

While men sometimes experience a particular type of acute pain in their “je n’ais ce quois” region (polite society speak for “groin”), often after suffering a localized application of force during a sporting competition, alternative pathology can also cause significant distress. John was married to Mary, a neonatologist, who after streaming The Crown desired the same ring that Prince Charles gave to Princess Di, a Blue Sapphire. …

Dorian Greyish was a committed weightlifter at Wilde High School who spent untold hours at the gym working on his abdominals. He was obsessed with his six-pack. An admirer photographed Dorian’s abdominals and posted the image at his gym, to which Dorian exclaimed, “I would gladly sell my soul to maintain those abdominal muscles forever; if only the picture would age instead of me.” …