Stories from an ordinary life

A few more days till the weekend!

As I was driving home tonight thinking about the weekend I have spent many, many dollars preparing for, I realized that the bars are going to be open an extra hour! Why you ask? Because it's daylight savings time! The clocks will all skip back to 1 a.m. at 2 a.m. What a sweet way to celebrate Halloween! I'll be all set in my pirate get-up. I plan to drip myself in gold and fill my flask (complete with skull and crossbones!) with something that will keep me nice and warm. Yay! Too bad it's going to be so damn cold. My slightly slutty (as Tracey calls it "just enough") costume isn't going to provide much protection from the wind so I'm going to have to huddle up with my buddies. I hate being cold! But hey, pirates are tough, I'll survive.

So anyway, I didn't want to leave everyone with a short blog so I started trying to find some funny tidbit on the web to add here. I had to put this link up to a cat photo because it made me laugh for like 10 minutes. Anyhow, in honor of all things pirate, here's a parrot joke:

Wanda's dishwasher quit working so she called a repairman. Since she had to go to work the next day, she told the repairman, "I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check." "Oh, by the way don't worry about my bulldog. He won't bother you. But, whatever you do, do NOT, under ANY circumstances, talk to my parrot! I REPEAT, DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!"

When the repairman arrived at Wanda's apartment the following day, he discovered the biggest, meanest looking bulldog he has ever seen. But, just as she had said, the dog just lay there on the carpet watching the repairman go about his work. The parrot, however, drove him nuts the whole time with his incessant yelling, cursing and name calling.

Finally the repairman couldn't contain himself any longer and yelled, "Shut up, you stupid, ugly bird!" To which the parrot replied, "Get him, Spike!"

posted by This one time . . . @ 12:28 AM