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I was watching a group of volunteer teens do a community project.  They were moving paving stones and having a competition as to who could carry the most.  Ah youngsters and testosterone, it didn’t last long thou before they wore out and realized they had a wheel barrel and no girls to impress.  Some were working hard while others were working smart, maybe they learned something.

Me Last

I love it when people get mad that we can’t make a speedy decision on what they feel is their cut and dry situation.  Your situation maybe clear, but it still has to wait its turn behind everyone who got here first.  We take care of each claim in the order it’s received and since these are not life and death issues, chill out.  You an’t special and maybe I’ll put a hold on it and you’ll go back to the end of the line.

To Good To Be Greed

I enjoy watching the shows where greedy conman steal money from people with false promises and then see how their greed brings them down.  Now there are true victims of these people and I feel sorry for them that they trusted the other.  But then there are the greedy victims who should have known better but believe they have found that pot of gold and keep putting more and more money into the scam.  Then are shocked when they realized they were scammed.  I know they fell for a conman, but it was their greed that lead the way and clouded their decisions.  As the old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true….   Plus never put all your eggs into one basket, even if it appears to be made of gold.

Peace To The Mouse

It’s 2 days before Christmas and all through the mall parking lot, people are driving like maniacs and that quiet mouse did not have a chance!  Plus Tiny Tim is now a hood ornament!  I dare not go inside for fear of my life!  So I hop into my mini van and run to my Cabin In The Woods, for people are just plain nuts and now Rudolph is running for his life, for someone wants to kill him and mount him on their wall.  So pieces to all and good will to the survivors!

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Wee Wee

An Accountant, Doctor and Teacher enter a bathroom to take a leak.  The Accountant finishes first washes their hands and takes one piece of paper towel to dry their hands.  Then the Doctor finishes and uses 10 pieces of paper towel.  The Accountant then says I was taught to be thrifty, to which the doctor responds I was taught to be thorough.  Then the Teacher walks by both of them and out the door and says along the way, I was taught not to pee on my hands.

*Ever have a contest to see who can write their name in the snow faster?

Phonie

One fall weekend during the “Age of the Blackberry” my children’s youth group was out camping.  On the agenda was a hike in the nearby terrain.  At the end of the hike one of the parents realized that he had lost his Blackberry.  Being he could have dropped it anywhere on the trail during the 3+ mile hike there was a slight groan, it wasn’t flat terrain.  First we asked the Ranger if anyone had turned in a phone, no such luck.  So we then proceeded to retrace the hike dialing his phone # over and over again, since he wasn’t sure if it was on, while others just looked.  Finally about a ½ mile into the hike we heard it ringing.  It was buried under a pile of leaves on the trail and no one would have seen it until spring.  This parent is a lawyer and all his contacts were on this phone.  During the search he mentioned that he had always meant to backup that info.  Wonder if he ever did?

On another trip that I wasn’t on, another parent did the same thing.  The group searched in vain to locate that phone.  After getting home the parent found the phone in his backpack.  I would have never admitted that to anyone or the group who wasted their time looking for it, when he had it all the time.

Often

One time at summer camp I was filling out a claim form for one of the male counselors who got sick.  He was and probably still is a horndog so in the spot that indicted patient sex on the form I put in often.  I thought it was funny.  The insurance company didn’t and sent it back for correction.  Those insurance companies need a sense of humor.

Background Noise

One warm summer afternoon while sitting outside the nurses office at camp I could hear the screams and yells of the fun the children were sending out into the world, not at all uncommon sound for a summer camp.  But then from the mist of this background noise I heard a different kind of scream and yell and it was clearly not joy, but pain.  So I headed in its general direction knowing I was about to become busy.  Turns out one of the campers was headed down some stairs and proceeded to fall and break their leg in the process.  It’s amazing how not really listening to the sounds of camp in the background; that this scream jumped out at me as abnormal.

Won’t Help

That’s just not a fantasy I’m willing to work with, however, if you’d like to work in reality with us, then I can help you.  However since you’re currently operating in a fantasy world, we would only be guessing and what’s the point of that?  You’d never be happy with our help anyhow, at least until you see the light of day.

Really?

Someone stated to me that we misrepresented what they choose not to read, come again?  If you didn’t bother to read it, exactly how was it misrepresented?  You can’t claim to have been deceived if you were never told or read anything that you might base this decision on?  My Cabin In The Woods pleaze!

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Something’s You Don’t Forget

When I got home from work the other day my mother in law, who has Alzheimer’s, asked for money.  So I asked her what did she need it for?  She said; just to have some.  I was OK with that so I gave her a dollar, she looks at it and says, “That’s it?”  They say people with her condition retain their long term memory and she’s forgotten who we are, but apparently she hasn’t forgotten money.

Solo Selfie

I have a coworker who feels the need to make a show of things.  Today was their birthday and their desk is covered by flowers etc. so everyone knows it’s her birthday.  Thing is, none of her coworkers got her anything, she self-promoted it all.  Do you really need 8 mylar happy birthday balloons over your cubicle?  When she purchased a new car, she was walking around showing everyone pictures of it.  I don’t recall anyone asking to see them.

Oh So Lucky

On one bitter cold early Sunday morning in February while camping, I went to warm up my car when I realized that I had locked my keys in it, yet again.  Being I was camping in the middle of nowhere it was a definite “Oh Sh*t” moment!  I approached the camp Ranger for help and they said they could try, but could not guarantee anything.  So while waiting for them to arrive I approached a couple of random adults who were standing in the parking lot and jokingly asked if any of them knew how to break into a car.  One answered that it was my lucky day.  He apparently was a locksmith and had my car open before I could say thank you.  So it went from an “Oh Sh*t”, to a “Thank God” moment.  I was extremely lucky that day for staying in my Cabin In The Woods.

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It Was Worth It

My employer recently moved and this is greatly upsetting people that our mail is being forwarded.  The main hub of the USPS is literally next door and it still takes them a week to forward.  Anyhow, they demand to know why we moved.  Well it’s simple really; we did it just to inconvenience you.  That’s why we spent all that money, we don’t like you and wanted to ruin your day.  It’s not like we out grew our old space.