The best to never....

[MikeWaters]

I saw a blurb that so-and-so just died, the greatest auto racer to never win the Indianappolis 500.

So it got me to thinking about best/nevers.

I wonder if it could be said, by someone, of me, that I was the best novelist to never write a novel.

Or of someone else, the best lover, among those that never made love.

Or what of the greatest competitive eater, to have never finished everything on his plate.

In a world full of competition and braggarts, I think I will seize some of these plums and claim them for myself. The realm of the "modest greatest to nevers." Prime territory.