1.   Imagine his shock when he saw the name David Crosby on his birth certificate.

2.   Imagine my shock.

3.   Imagine their shock of trekking into huge Tucson from a rural Chiapas village, knowing nobody.

4.   Imagine his shock if he learned that his grungy old bat could fetch so much more in the marketplace.

5.   Imagine the shock if the Clippers ever reached the NBA final.

6.   --Imagine the shock, likable Redskins owner Dan Snyder having a public-address announcer so obnoxious he had to be canned in midseason.

7.   So imagine my shock when some of these people now and then showed up at our door.

8.   So you can imagine my shock when my husband raved on about the new Oldsmobile Intrigue.

9.   So you can imagine my shock when in my rearview mirror, I saw what appeared to be the roof of a car behind me.

10.   Still, imagine the shock, the horror, the disbelief of this group of kindred spirits as each resident tries to comprehend what has happened to their hometown.