1st Sentence of Each Paragraph

Every now and then I find it humbling to do this. After writing a long, windy post, I wonder if it could actually be improved by eliminating everything but the first sentence of each paragraph, as someone famous once said. (Maybe.) Here is the modified version of the previous post. Even though it has been rendered incomprehensible, it's a shorter read and therefore much improved. It's possible I learned something. I will now put down the ol' turkey quill and go play the guitar, or something. 

Happy Thanksgiving, in whatever format you can manage. 

Here it is:

While I was a repair technician for the phone company working out of a garage in south Independence, Missouri, I had the good fortune of working with this guy named Roger. 

Possibly you had to be there. 

But Roger was the guy that ran across this weird scenario. 

Trouble was, the Cable TV guy had to pull up on the rod in order to expose enough of it at ground level so he could get his clamp around it. 

Several weird things happened at once. 

The reason this happened so easily is that we were experiencing a drought, and the ground rod was sitting in dry dirt, and so wasn't doing much grounding and the current went all over the place instead of down the ground rod and out, as it was supposed to. 

Roger thought only of alleviating this mess.  

By this time, our supervisor was in on it, because the customer was already escalating the whole thing since their wiring was damaged, and this was, obviously, not their fault. 

So, what about the school bus, I hear you asking.

They stopped to see if anyone needed help.

Roger and the guys wrapped a big chain around the frame on the underside of the bus, attached it to their own line truck, and by driving away at a right angle, they righted the bus so it plopped back up on its four wheels.

I wanted to shrug and ask him if he got any mud on the old prayer bones while removing the chain from the bus.