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| Subject: Let Us Laugh Now May 26th 2010, 9:49 am | |
| You were in a rush Had your glasses off Grabbed a can and sprayed your hair The “hairspray” being bathroom foam cleaner You leave with a spike hairdo.
Let us laugh now.
You were in a hurry You back out of the garage With my car slightly behind yours Dad navigates who is almost legally blind You almost hit my car You angled out And ripped the side mirror off the door.
Let us laugh now.
You show me your car is broke An air gauge clip is next to the emergency brake I tell you the brake is not broke You ask why the emergency light is lit up I say you have your foot on the brake.
Let us laugh now.
You had boiled hummingbird food Mixture, water and sugar You are standing there watching It ooze out of the bottom All over your shoes and on the floor You asked why it does that The bottom was not screwed on.
Let us laugh now.
You had walked away from the stove Left a frying pan on I come home to a house full of black smoke The pan is on fire.
Let us laugh now.
You get a phone call It is from the doctors office Notifying you of your appointment You write it down wrong You miss the appointment.
Let us laugh now.
You want to know what I did with your pill box Why the pills are not full You took tonight’s pills this morning And in the spirit of things Mixed the days all up to backfill the spaces.
Let us laugh now.
You are still able to drive To answer the phone To take messages and “convey them” Yet you won’t get a hearing aide You wont’ get your eyes checked
Let us laugh now.
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| | | Carousal
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| Subject: Re: Let Us Laugh Now May 27th 2010, 10:46 am | |
| Oh this fits my wife to a tee, I love her to bits but will she ever admit to getting in wrong? No chance. Like the time when I made mushroom ketchup which takes days to produce one small bottle; CRASH Christine had knocked it onto the tiled floor. “Oh No” I screamed. “Well what a stupid place to put it” observed the wife. “What you mean on the worktop?” “Ok on the worktop, but not there” “You mean where it’s not in any danger from your flailing arms?” “Don’t be silly”
Nice poem, that walking disaster should have a danger sign hung round their neck. | |
| | | Armchair Queen
Posts : 55 Karma : 13 Location : Vermont
| Subject: Re: Let Us Laugh Now May 28th 2010, 9:50 am | |
| This is very funny, especially since it does not apply to me at this nano second in time. However, it does or basically will apply to me, maybe not the exact same incidents because when I am in a hurry something usually goes awry, like one morning I wasn't careful and instead of cinnamon I poured cumin in the coffee grounds, or accidentally putting soy sauce instead of vanilla extract in the muffin batch, because I didn't double check and read the label first, it was just a dark liquid in a glass jar, luckily I realized it before baking the muffins. Or pulling an open bag of frozen vegetables from the freezer and spilling them all over the floor, yes it goes on and on, and later perhaps after the cursing, maybe a few days or so I laugh, or if it wasn't myself the laughter may come instantly. Minor misshaps are slapstick and humorous.
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| | | prometheus
Posts : 300 Karma : 53 Location : New South Wales
| Subject: Re: Let Us Laugh Now May 31st 2010, 1:03 pm | |
| I was laughing that's for sure.....I have a friend that used air freshener for deodourant and I have backed into my wife's car that "I" put there.....this is funny all the way through, but it is also a little sad. Age can do some strange things to us all. Enjoyed this a lot. | |
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