I was heading down to Bush Garden's this evening to see Grand Funk Railroad, but the weather didn't seem to be very cooperative, and I didn't want to get stuck down there particularly late on a Sunday night. Here it is 8 p.m. concert start time and the rain is coming down in bucket loads. I'm so glad that I didn't venture out.
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The next time someone asks you a dumb question, wouldn't you like to respond like this?.....
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow at Wal-Mart for Athena the wonder dog and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
What did she think I had -- an elephant? So since I'm retired, with little to do... on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, but I was starting the Purina Diet again. Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital last time... but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I woke up in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV's in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry, and that the food is nutritionally co mplete so I was going to try it again.. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's behind and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!
WAL-MART won't let me shop there anymore.
(Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.)
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