Laughter is the best medicine . . .

[SassieCat]

Susan  , that was very funny.  Would have loved to hear what that woman thought!!! 

[peachpop]

There recently was an article in the  St. Petersburg Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on:  "How Would You Fix the Economy?"
I think this guy nailed it!
   _____

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy.  Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.  Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.  Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR..  Forty million cars ordered ? Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage ? Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes...

Mr.. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

[Bucky]

Normally, when I am home, I don't wear my wedding ring (don't want to get soap, etc. in it).  So, this morning as I'm getting ready to head out the door I go to the jewelry box to get my ring.  It's not there!     I have been known to put it in my jean pocket - look there.  Nothing.  Hmmm, maybe I stuck it in the other pocket.  Nope, nothing there except a tube of chapstick.  Where's my ring??     I look on the bedroom floor thinking maybe it fell out of my pocket and is laying on the carpet.  Nope, can't find it. 

I've got to get going, so I'll just put my anniversary band on and call it good for now and look for my wedding ring later.   I always put hand lotion on before I head out the door.  I go to put hand lotion on before putting on the anniversary band and looky, looky . . . there, on my hand, is my wedding ring!!     DUH!!!!!      I certainly don't remember putting it there!!!  I amaze myself some times!!   

Bucky   

[Katybarstool]

Bucky

What are you like Glad you found it!

Kathyx

[Bernice]

Bucky,
You reminded me of a time when I used to have a home daycare. I had about 6 to 8 little ones. One day I went with the kids to my directors, we were independent, but were supervised by the govt. there was an office on the military installation, this is where we were this day. After collecting my supplies I gathered up all the kids to leave, but it was one that I just could not find, I was in a panic looking all around for this child, had my supervisors helping, they were just as scared as I was. They did not know one child from the other, but trusted that one was missing because I said so. Well after much to do I discovered the missing child on my hip!

This was about 20 some years ago! At the start of my brain fog!

[SassieCat]

Don't feel bad Bucky,
One night I was getting ready to cozy down to a good book, just needed to grab a glass of ice water from the fridge and off to bed I go.  Where's my book?  Not in the bathroom, not fallen behind the bed, under the bed under the covers, not in the bathroom.  Where is the darn book.  Not in the kitchen, not in the living room, not on any counters in the kitchen or the dining room.  So I search all these places again, look even in the trash cans.  NO BOOK!

The next day I got out of bed and went to get a glass of water, there IS MY BOOK!!!! I left it in the refrigerator!!!!  Was that 'cool' of me 

[jordozmom]

OMG - I am crying these stories are so funny!!  HAHAHAHA!!

Not too long ago my family was sitting down at the kitchen table for dinner when my husband (who had had a bad day at work) went to toss something into the garbage next to me and missed letting out a HUGE sigh, as if nothing could go right for him that day, so out of pity for his lousy day and in an effort to save him from coming all the way around the table to get it I quick reached down to grab it off of the floor and pitch it for him, only the momentum of my movement flipped me over and right out of the chair, taking both me and the chair down to the floor.  It all happened so fast that I was just shocked!! But the really funny part was that the way I landed the chair had me pinned against the kitchen wall and I had nothing to grab onto and as I put my feet on the floor on either side of the chair to give myself a boost up my socks slid on the tile and slid right out from under me.  I looked like a crab on roller skates!!  My son - who is 11 - thinks this is the funniest thing he's ever seen so he starts laughing, which gets me to start laughing, and soon we are both laughing so hysterically that I couldn't get up at ALL.  I just sat there pinned against the wall with my arms and legs flailing.  So then I look up at my hubby and he just looks at me, dead serious, shakes his head and walks out of the room like we are the nuttiest people he has ever seen - LEAVING ME STUCK ON THE FLOOR!!!  OMG - My son STILL talks about that!

[SassieCat]

Jordozmom,

That really is funny.  Chairs are a dangerous item.  Once our office was borrowing chairs from other offices to see which ones we liked so we could order new chairs.  Of course it was traffic court day and the office was loaded with police officers ready to go to traffic court.

I was sitting on a highbacked chair with wheels and bent down to pick up something I dropped.  The chair flipped over and I was trapped in a peculiar position underneath my desk.  I could not move, just laugh.

I had the help of about 6 kind police officers to see what happened to me.  One minute I was sitting there smiling and the next I was no where to be seen, only thing they could still hear me laughing uncontrollably.  When they finally got the chair untangled from my legs and feet, my boss was trying to ask me what the heck happened.  All I could say was, "I don't want that kind of chair for a new chair, it's too dangerous."  Ever since I earned the nickname as 'crash' and they were going to give me a ticket for reckless operation of an office chair.  Even the judges teased me about.

[jaygee]

I hope I am not the only person who couldn't find her glasses anywhere?  Specs case is empty, specs are not in any usual place.

Then discovered I was already wearing them!       xx

[Joy Cox]

Hey Jaygee, Always be sure and pat yourself on the head; YOU MIGHT EVEN FIND A SECOND PAIR THERE!!!!! 

[Bernice]

OMG! Sassie

Oh I bet that was too FUNNY!

Jaycee, that used to happen to me alot, it was one of the ways I knew it was time for new glasses.

My cousin and I are on the phone talking right? She kkeps saying she can't find something, well I finally ask WHAT on earth is she looking for? Turns out she was looking for her phone!

This same cousin who is one of the scarest people you would ever meet rushed in her house in a panic thinking someone in the outside darkness is following her, turns out to be the plastic bag she was carrying making noises!

[SassieCat]

You know yesterday I was hurting so bad and after I logged on to see what was new I was laughing too much to notice the pain.  This really has been fun and I wanted to say thank you to Bucky for the post. 

I too have looked for my glasses, nowhere to be found.  Looked in the rearview mirror of the car and there they are, on my head.  That's either an awful place to hide them or the last place we think to look.  Yes, this made me laugh too.  It is funny (after) when we  think of all the silly things that we have done or happened to us.

[Bucky]

Sassie . . . . between your cold book and wheelie chair . . how funny!!     I'm sure everything happened so quickly with the chair - I can just picture the look on those men's faces.  I don't think you'll live that down anytime soon!!  LOL

Bucky

[Bucky]

A middle-aged woman seemed sheepish as she visited her gynecologist.

"Come now," coaxed the doctor, "you've been seeing me for years.  There's nothing you can't tell me."

"This one's kind of strange," the woman said.

"Let me be the judge of that," the doctore replied.

"Well," she said, "yesterday I went to the bathroom in the morning and heard a plink-plink-plink in the toilet.  When I looked down, the bowl was full of pennies."

"I see," commented the doctor calmly.

"That afternoon, I went to the bathroom again, and plink-plink-plink, there were nickels in the bowl," the woman continued.

"That night", she went on, "I went again, and plink-plink-plink, there were dimes.  This morning, there were quarters!"

"You've got to tell me what's wrong with me!"  she implored, "I'm scared out of my wits!"

The gynecologist put a comforting hand on her shoulder, "There, there, it's nothing to be scared about," he said.

"You're simply going through the change!"


                           

[Katybarstool]

Bucky

Loved that one - going to send it tomy menopausal buddies at work.

Kathyx