Chuckle 1023

Chuckle 1023
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Phyllis H of Carpinteria CA!)


~Rat-a-Tat~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

A man is in bed with his wife when there is a rat-a-tat on the door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and its half past three in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time." he thinks and rolls over then, a louder knock follows.

"Aren't you going to answer that?" says his wife. So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and there is a man standing at the door. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was drunk.

"Hi there.” Slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push?"

"No, get lost, it's half past three. I was in bed." says the man and slams the door. He goes back to bed and tells his wife what happened. she says, "Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's door asked him to get us started again? What would have happened if he" told us to get lost?"

"But the guy was drunk!" says the husband.

"It doesn't matter." says the wife. "He needs our help and it would be the Christian thing to help him."

So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere, he shouts "Hey, do you still want a push?"

He hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, please."

So, still being unable to see the stranger, he shouts, “Where are you?"

The stranger replies, "I’m over here, on your swing." ***

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Word of the Day for Tuesday April 25, 2006

sporadic \spuh-RAD-ik\, adjective:Occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances.

Throughout the early years of Kelly's life, out of guilt as much as out of affection, she suspected, her father would make sporadic reappearances, make ever more incompetent attempts to be a good father to her and a good partner to her mother, before leaving again.-- Geoff Nicholson, Female Ruins

The land is desperately overpopulated, and the thin soil is so eroded that it can only sustain scattered groups of scrawny cattle or sheep and sporadic crops of maize.-- Anthony Sampson, Mandela: The Authorized Biography

In most courses he received a simple Pass, a grade designed for bright students with a history of sporadic attendance or other problems.-- Paul Mariani, The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
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