Idea for Non-Fic

My husband and I were talking. He wants me to ghost write for him for a non-fiction idea. He wants to write down all of his stories from his towing job, the crazy calls, the weirder ones, the interesting ones.

Like recently - he got a CAA call (Road side) for a woman who needed help rolling up her windows...yes, rolling up her windows. She couldn't figure it out, they were power windows on a GM that she just bought (you have to flick the button up to close the windows and she had accidentally hit the "all windows" button making all the windows go down).

Or Yesterday - One of the local high school principals played a practical joke on one of the teachers. Calls up hubby's boss says he needs to have a vehicle moved from one part of the parking spot to the other. Hubby gets there and the principal tells him it's a joke they are playing on one of the teachers. Hubby is "okaaay" can't move it if I don't have the keys to put it in neutral or I'm putting it on dollies. Principal says can you pretend to hoist it as if you were going to tow it and they'll bring buddy out.

Fine, Hubby does this, it's on the boom and the teacher comes out freaking out and the principal and other teachers are giggling telling him he's getting towed for all the times he parked crooked (they all apparently know how to park in a straight line but this guy). They finally let him off the hook and my husband gets paid to play a joke on someone...go figure.

It's stories like this that have him wanting to put out a book. Would people read it though? Be interested? Are there similar books out there like this (I haven't really found any the same, I've found repo books but not like what my husband wants to do - did I mention he's repo'ed a big boat off of someone's front lawn at 3 am in the morning without waking them up at all).

He's had roll overs, recoveries, repo's, stranger than truth situations, he even had a rollover accident with a street sweeper (not his fault, chains snapped, boss was responsible for equipment). So much to tell but how many would read?

lol byarvin.

Who will play me...errr, I haven't the foggiest idea. I'd aspire to Angelina Jolie but I'm not pretty enough for her I'd think.

It would have to be someone who can both look haggard, harried and so dead tired that their black circles under their eyes have black circles. I can see this being a big thing too if done right. I'm very seriously thinking about doing this project with these three tow truck drivers. My husband wants me to write it because he says he can't string together two sentences on paper if he tried.

The other tow truck driver is retired but was in the business for a very long time. A good friend of mine. Hubby's boss, obviously, has a lot of towing experience under his belt. He's been in the business since 1974. I think I have the start of something that could be very good. Thanks you two, I think I'll go with it, now to find time for my hubby to sit down and actually dictate.

I've never written a non-fic underthecity and I thank you for the advice. I will take it gladly. I think that's a great idea (obviously) to start where you suggest. Looks like I have some research to do and a first chapter to outline and plot.

Hopefully Hubby, his boss and my friend have some time to sit down with me soon. Hubby has been doing a minimum of 15 to 25 calls a day lately (winter months are busier than a hive of bees on a breezy June morning).

Thanks again for the input ladies and gents!

Thank you all for the encouragement, I need it lately.

I will be doing the proposal (any tips non fic writers?) and chapter samples. I already have enough for a few doozies of stories. I'm not sure what format I want to use (mini story style per chapter or diary style..I don't know what to do with it.. any tips or hints are greatly appreciated).

I have to admit I had a good giggle over the idea when hubby suggested it after telling me about a funny story the night he told me (he had just done the call, the one with the windows and lady who couldn't figure out how to roll them up - power windows). I don't want the book to be mean or inflammatory toward the customers he deals with or handles. I don't want them to feel "made fun of" because that is not the focus of this idea at all.