Tincup
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Sometimes things are so funny you just have to share them. Here' my latest. And I want to hear YOUR story! Make me laugh! Please!
The other day I was riding down the road (busy highway) behind an "Oversize" Truck from Tennessee. The truck had wooden panels sticking out about 6 ft. toward the right side of the road.
Every time the truck came to a telephone post, sign or whatever that it might hit with the protruding wooden panels, the driver had to slow down and maneuver around the obstacle. When the left lane had an opening it was only then he could scoot over and around the obstacles safely, so it was a lot of stop and go.
Eventually, up ahead I saw someone on a bicycle peddling hard. He was towing a small carrier behind his bike and really moving quickly. Several times in the next couple of miles the truck had to slow down, then stop and wait to be able to go around the guy on the bike, depending on the hills and flat surfaces where the bike was able to speed up- making me have to watch both the truck's back end, the passing cars to my left and the guy on the bike very carefully.
Finally, with all this drama going on and as my nerves were getting more frazzled because I couldn't get around the truck, up ahead was a red light, and of course we all had to stop.
A few seconds after traffic stopped the biker came riding up again beside me. This time he couldn't squeeze by the truck's wooden panels, so he stopped beside the truck right ahead of me on the shoulder of the road. It was then when I saw what was in his carrier.
THIS is the spot where I have to tell you all something that I doubt many would believe. I sure didn't! I had to take a second look, then 3rd and 4th one too!
He was towing a cage, like one you'd keep a dog or cat in, and inside it appeared there was nothing, until he stopped, and up popped 2 BIG white ducks! They all were having so much fun! You could almost see the ducks smiling and laughing on their big adventure.
Well, I sure laughed! And the lady next to me in the left lane, when I glanced her way, was laughing. When she saw me looking her way she threw both hands up in the air as to say, "now I've seen everything".
Anyhow, I mentioned I'd seen the bike and ducks to a lady in a little store a while later and she said, oh yes, that's XXXXX. He takes his pet ducks for a ride almost every day. She said that as if this were such a "normal" thing to do, but I have to admit I've never seen ducks being towed by a bicycle before. Guess you have to live in the city to see such unique sights? Anyhow...
After listening restlessly to a long and tedious sermon, a 6-year-old boy asked his father what the preacher did the rest of the week. "Oh he's a very busy man," the father replied.
"He takes care of church business, visits the sick, ministers to the poor.... And then he has to have time to rest up. Talking in public isn't an easy job, you know."
"The boy thought about that, then said, "Well, listening ain't easy, either."
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GretaM
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Haha! Thanks for the laughs! Posts: 4358 | From British Columbia, Canada | Registered: Jun 2013
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That's a good story about taking the ducks out for a bike ride!
How about here, on Market St, we have vintage rail cars from all over the world. So I'm reading the Italian inside the rail car from Milano, Italy, and it says, in Italian, "Not allowed more than two live fowl onboard per person."
I pointed that out to my fellow passengers, that there were rules posted in this car that we should follow, and everyone started laughing when they understood what this sign was saying. See, that would have been good for your bike rider: no more than two live fowl allowed per bike!
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ADHD + Dyslexia + billboard proclaiming "BABYSITTING" = an almost wreck on the I-10 in N'Awlins for me and Silver.
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Silverwolf
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Hi there <<<<< Tincup, and Lymenet Family >>>>>,
TxCoord and I have a small dog,half Chinese Crested and half Min-pin.
Before we moved, the mobile home park we lived in got very very particular about pets. Even tho' we had a fenced yard,and doggy didn't stay out for long[nor was he allowed to bark continuously]
...the management wanted an owner out w/ the dog for their potty and exercise times everytime.
Sometimes little Muad'i got particular, he'd take his time,and wander back and forth to find just the right spot in the yard to 'go'. If he got to taking overly long... we'd say,ok hurry now,find a spot and go... etc.
Now,even after we moved...Muad'i boy comes to the bathroom and whines, ...especially at me. TxCoord says he is fussing at me,for all the times I told him he needed to hurry, LOL!!!
Jus' Silverwolfi
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Tincup
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HA! Well, you did it! Still laughing! TOO FUNNY!
TuTu- Funny, but sometimes true too! hehehehe
Shiela- Forget the axe and other sharp objects! YIKES! But I did learn something while laughing. I'm going downstairs and show them I can juggle water! HA!
Robin409365947- When I saw your name I said I'll bet San Francisco Robin probably has something like this story, as strange as those California girls are! I was right! That's cute! And you read Italian? Wow!
TX- that's a funny one for sure!!!
Silver- Sorry to laugh at your "paybacks"! And to think a dog got ya! HA!
Inspired by the video, I was going to show a clip of Jeff Dunham and some of his funny acts, like Auchmed and Walter, but noticed it had strong language and it MIGHT be offensive to some, so you'll have to look it up on your own to laugh at them.
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Yeah, be sure not to miss the post about talking to stewed strawberries - Lymetoo thought it was your post at first!
Ha, re my understanding Italian - I landed in Rome for 5 months and knew no Italian, so I got a dictionary and looked up all the noun translations.
One day a woman came to visit the Italian folks I was staying with and she was from Palo Alto, Ca, no less - I was so happy as I grilled her on what the heck was going on with all the politics.
It took two hours to get through the history of 13 or 15 political parties and why they were all in the streets everyday.
Afterwards, my Italian host said to me, in French, that the Palo Alto woman said I was very intelligent, and my host was looking at me, like What the f***?
And I started laughing because I think it was the fault of all those nouns I knew, with no verbs, etc!
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MADDOG
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Well TC the biker had seen that trucker before.
That is why he takes the ducks along.
If the boards get to close he ducks and he doesent get hit.
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Annie C
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Great place for jokes. Maybe they should use the bad speller known as Ol' Mac'Donald needs to take the Aflac Duck for a ride on his tracker on the streets. Then use it for a horn by squeezing the ducks tail feathers. And then he won't need a speech therapist.
Sorry for that. I just couldn't help myself.
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As a teen I worked at the base commissary as a bag boy and on Sat mornings before catching the shuttle bus I would scramble some eggs for breakfast.
One time my younger brother came down and said he would fix breakfast. Cool! "What kind of eggs can you make?" I asked.
"Fried, scrambled, boiled, poached," "Great! I haven't had poached eggs in a long time." So with pans rattling and me getting the toast ready we got to work.
All of a sudden I hear this tiny voice mumbling to itself, "I wonder if I should have put the water in first?"
He put a couple of "hockey pucks" on my plate and smiled. Needless to say I went hungry (except for a piece of toast) that morning.
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