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Topic: This could be a reality show!!

Topic Posted by: GailJ
Date Posted: Tue Jul 1 8:58:10 2008
Additional Comments: There's a man I know who is so funny. He doesn't mean to be but just is. I won't identify him but he's a 60 something ordinary kind of guy that is followed by this cloud of "funniness" (for lack of a better word). He and his family took off for their vacation home with two brand new mattresses in the back of his pickup truck. It takes approximately 7 hours to get to their place. When they got there, they noticed that they didn't have the mattresses anymore! Turns out, about 1/2 hour from home, they flew out the back of the truck and nobody noticed. Nobody that is except the lady behind him whose car the mattress struck doing lots of damage to the car but fortunately she wasn't hurt. She got his tag number and the police were looking for him! He got it straightened out but can't you see this "bubba" (i use that term lovingly!) riding down the road as his mattresses fly out...unbeknownst to him or his wife! Then on the way back, they were towing a small trailer, the pin came out of the trailer hitch and the trailer was hanging on by the chains only. The truck started swerving and nearly overturned before he noticed it. Luckily they were able to pull over on I95 and fix the problem. At home, he sprayed his back yard for weeds. A few days later, the weeds were still there so he sprayed again...twice as much. A few days later...still the weeds were growing strong. He took the bottle of "Round-Up" back to the Home Depot to complain that it doesn't work...he was very patiently and politely told that BUG KILLER won't kill weeds!!! LOL...Like I said in the topic...This could be a reality show. Follow this old guy around for a few days with a video camera and you could sell this stuff!! He is the sweetest guy, you can't help but love him!

Posted by: Brillo
Date posted: Tue Jul 1 21:23:17 2008
Message:
That's so funny. My boss is always doing stuff like that. One time she was standing at the checkout in the grocery store with her husband, digging through her purse for a pen, and when she found one and pulled it out, there was an old tampon attached to it by the string, the wrapper had long since disappeared, and the tampon came flying out towards the cashier. Her husband almost died. Things like that happen to her all the time. She's the one who'll come out of the bathroom with toilet paper trailing behind her. LOL!

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ROTFLMAO....I could just see that tampon flying at the cashier...what a hoot! ......OT

Posted by: cook
Date posted: Tue Jul 1 12:07:14 2008
Message:
Here are a couple of stories about John.....

He went on a vacation to Cozumel alone. This was 12 years ago when the internet isn't nearly what it is today. He had read somewhere about a restaurant that highly interested him there. It is in a remote rural cliff side location. He gets a cab to take him out there. He speaks no Spanish, the driver no English. He just shows him the address. They arrive, and the cab driver leaves him. ( I can't imagine how perplexed the driver must have been when dismissed ) Anyway, the restaurant is abandoned. Not a soul (or a phone) around! Now, most people would have picked up on MANY not so subtle clues to this, but not John! Now what? He sits on the steps for awhile contemplating what to do next. Really no choice but to begin the LOOOOONG WALK back to the nearest town. Eventually a truck full of chickens and agricultural workers pull up. After a series of hand signals, everyone agrees that he should climb in the back of the truck and get dropped off in the nearest village. Now if you did something THIS stupid would come back and tell your co - workers?

Another time he came to a poker game. Everyone was supposed to bring something. (think beer and dips) John brought a big container of ice cream. OOOOKKKAAAY! The host puts it in the freezer. "Hey wheres that ice cream?" John asks. He gets it out of the freezer and it is SOLID! So he puts it in the microwave for 5 minutes! When he gets it out it is hot ice cream soup. "Who wants some?" he asks. Completely serious as he starts trying to pass out bowls and spoons around the card game. No takers, so he takes the container and a spoon, sits down and slurps the entire thing up! Totally true story!

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OMG...they MUST be related! LOL

And the really funny thing is that I have hundreds of these stories after working with him for 3 years and knowing him for over a decade. Oddly, he has a degree in business from a state school in Louisiana and has a fantastic vocabulary. The uninitiated would not know this about him. Sweet guy too. Really love him. Can't keep a girlfriend though. Once he really liked a girl, got her on a 2nd date but she wouldn't return his calls after that. We listened to a rehash of the date and were quite dismayed when he told us that he felt the date *turn* when he started making caa ching (cash register style) noises while she was ordering! -cook

That is toooo funny! GJ

Awwww! Now I feel nostalgic. Every week back then provided a new Johnism. -cook

Posted by: cook
Date posted: Tue Jul 1 11:42:42 2008
Message:
I know a guy EXACTLY like this. We used to work together. I still have much affection for him and see him occasionally at his job. He is only about 40 though. All the former co - workers STILL laugh about his incidents! We nicknamed him The Jerk (in a nice way) after the Steve Martin character.
Oh there are sooooo many stories to tell about him. We had dinner with another couple last Friday and I told several. Even after all these years. He refuses to learn how to drive a standard transmission because there are just too many things to concentrate on! Multi tasking? Forget it!

Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Tue Jul 1 9:15:44 2008
Message:

OMG, that is just hilarious! Too bad about the lady and her car, but very funny nonetheless. Clearly, this guy is not a detail person. LOL! And, you're right, he should have a reality show.

BTW, ''Cloud of funniness'' that's a great phrase and a perfect description of your friend from the sound of it.

Posted by: GailJ
Date posted: Tue Jul 1 9:07:23 2008
Message:
Oh, I forgot this one: One time he was at a hotel wrestling with the key card in the door when the security guard came by. Are you having trouble getting into your room sir? Yes, this is my room but the door won't open....sir, if you take your American Express card out of the slot and insert your key card you will have better luck!! LOL...As I said above, you gotta love him. BTW, I've known this guy for over 20 years. This isn't happening as he ages...it's always been this way. Litke I said he's just a very funny guy!