Area Man Wins Conversation

KING MILLS, OH—A friendly chat about the weather resulted in victory for Daniel Cooper Wednesday, as a brilliant and well-timed rebuttal from the 36-year-old pastry chef devastated his opponent. “Yeah, well, if this is the heaviest rain we’ve had in years, then I guess I hallucinated my basement flooding last July,” Cooper said, deftly parrying his coworker Colin Garrison’s challenge. “This rain is nothing.” Wordlessly acknowledging Cooper’s superiority, Garrison slinked back to the cooler, defeated.