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Category: Humor


  • Smart Car – NOT

    A cousin once told me that in retirement every day is Saturday except Sunday when you go to church.  That’s mostly true, but in retirement Mondays can also be Mondays.    I know because I had one a few months ago.   It was the first day of my grandson’s rocking climbing camp and I was…

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  • The Wandering Crown

    True story.  At the dentist office recently to get a permanent crown, I lost it.  I don’t mean my self-control, I mean the crown.  Lost it while it was in my mouth for fitting.  It wasn’t swallowed, it popped out and disappeared.  Let me explain. The 45 minute appointment turned into 2 hours.  Removing the…

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  • Big Sexy

    Sitting in the chair at the Barber Shop waiting to get my hair colored (a great local place for a style cut, color, or an old fashioned walk-in barber cut), I watched the barber fix her hair.  It was late in the day, she had no customers and she was obviously getting ready to go…

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  • The Rollaway Cart

    As Emily would say, “Let me tell you about the rollaway cart!”   Recently my daughter and family moved into their first house.  Grandpa and I came to town for a few days to keep the girls.  We chose a nearby hotel with a suite so we could have kitchen, living room and a bedroom…

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  • The Duke Disaster

      Two of The Three Bears were casualties – Baby Bear is missing his right leg and his left elbow is toast.  Mama Bear is completely MIA.  My Spode Christmas China butter dish lay shattered on the dining room floor, next to the thoroughly chewed collector’s Golden Book.  In the middle of the living room…

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