Memories that make you smile or laugh out loud

[Kern Dog]

Was probably 92 and my then GF (now wife) and I had been dating since 89.

You two were pretty old when you met. It is nice to see people find love so late in life.

 

[The Rebel]

You too were pretty old when you met. It is nice to see people find love so late in life.

Old, lol. She was 15 going on 16, I was 19 going on 20.

Oh, now I see those were the years, not our age lol. That was 1992, we were dating since 1989.

 

[Kern Dog]

You missed the point, man. Read it again.
“Was probably 92…” that can be interpreted as 92 years of age.
Now if you wrote 1992, that would be different

 

[Speedbird]

IDK if it's interesting. Consider it a "tribute." If the mod wants to leave the post.
Delete it if you want, Kiwi.
But the girl I spoke of on the previous page that worked lingerie showed up at my door one day with a suit case. Her father had been abusive to her mother.
When she took up for her mother the father kicked her out. Of course, I said she could stay.
While I was still talking to her in the house, the English girl and another old "girl friend" knocked on my door together.
I answered it and said something like I was busy. Can't recall exactly. But we all had worked at that department store at one time or another.
It was so weird I still wonder about it today.
The girl in question, I'm recalling her face when that happened, worked here for a while.
Display Location: Brook Run (Formerly Georgia Retardation Center) - Urban Exploration Resource
I also spent time there.
Our youth group would bus there and give a Christmas party to those that could sit up in wheel chairs and have cake and ice cream stuffed in their mouths.
The ones in back in the beds....never saw them. Just heard them.
So much for smiles?

 

[Geetex]

You too were pretty old when you met. It is nice to see people find love so late in life.

Not to be a nudge, but you have a reputation to uphold.

 

[Coelacanth]

Was probably 92 and my then GF (now wife) and I had been dating since 89.

As she was in college, l thought it would make a nice gift to give her a hot pot (a plug in kettle that you could make things in like coffee, tea, soup...)

Seeing it was empty l filled it with candy and thought it was a nice gift.

It went over like a fart in a spacesuit. I've never lived that down all these many years later,

Umm...was the hot pot filled with candy plugged in and turned on?

 

[JackR]

A good buddy of mine still. This was a long time ago we were probably 21-22 years old
Had a big party and a few folks couldn’t leave. In the morning, Joe the roommate was obviously passed out. Someone was banging on the door real hard for a long time. I got up the energy to answer and it was Joes girlfriend. Really pissed off. She goes to his room and finds him in the sack with Maureen and Corrine identical twins.
We still talk about that one.

 

[SlingLow]

I was out with my buddy Doug one night, cruising around in his CJ5 and drinking too much. Eventually we headed for home and hit the interstate. When he came down the off-ramp, he blew through the intersection without slowing down. I told him 'Hey, you missed that stop sign!' He jammed the brakes, did a panic stop, hit reverse, backed right back through the same intersection, dropped to first and plowed right through the stop sign, sending it over the top of the Jeep. He looks at me and says, 'got it that time!' Good times!

 

[Hey-O]

When Theresa and I were dating, we would go to a favorite camping spot on the river. We would use my dad's international scout. It had a blow up mattress that filled the back and had a tent that attached on the back with the tailgate gate down and lift gate up, extending the room inside the length of the tailgate. I parked it almost in the river and it was nice waking up to the view. After a few days of only wearing shorts, chiggers got a hold of my a**. Theresa said finger nail polish would smother them, and I said, works for me. While dabbing my a**, I changed positions, and somehow, her toe nail cut me just below my eye. Don't ask how it happened. When we got home, I was in the driveway unloading the Scout and explained it to my dad, who just laughed. When we went inside my mother asked how I got the cut below my eye, not thinking about the nail polish part of the story, I looked at her and told her it was from Theresa's and I changing positions and her toe nail caught me. My dad already knowing the story said, that's never happened to your mother and I. I thought my mother was going to slide out of the kitchen chair and hit the floor all while gasping and repeating several time, oh dear God, no!!! We laughed about that for years and my mother always said the same thing, I don't think that was funny, while she laughed.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Cranky]

Now you've done it.

Back about 22 years, I was working at our local hospital upgrading the carparking barriers etc with a colleague. One of the in-house maintenance guys came running out at us laughing his head off. He couldn't wait to spill the beans on the latest scandal.

Apparently a woman had complained about a real pain in her *** shortly after waking up after an operation. The doctor tending to her said that was unusual as she didn't have surgery anywhere near her ***. The doctor examined her, and upon 'in-depth' examination, he found a gold wedding ring in her rectum. The doctor washed it off and found an inscription inside. The Police were called and an Orderly was taken away. Seems the Orderly had been doing this for some time after more investigation ..... interfering with female patients while they were still drugged up and being moved from surgery to wards. The Orderly's undoing was the inscription in the ring ...had his and his wife's names.

Pretty nasty stuff....but it was a chuckle at the same time.

My first wife was a medical transcriptionist and some of the stories she came home with were nuts. One was a guy in the ER with a small coke bottle in his gas hole. Another with a light bulb. Makes ya wonder....

One of the toolmakers at work was quitting to take a job at another shop. This guy was a PITA, and no one was too sad to see him leave. He was always pranking guys, so a couple of guys decided he needed one to see him off. They drilled a small hole in his Kennedy tool box, threaded in a grease zerk, and proceeded to pump as much grease into it as they could.

Grease zerk job...heard about that at work but never witnessed it. Did make a smoke bomb for this one guy that liked to prank. Stuck it in the rollaway. Our rollaways out there had a sliding front like a garage door that covered the drawers with the very bottom being open to store bigger stuff. Anyways, this guy wasn't coming around for awhile so it smoked for a good while. A bit later this goody two shoes comes walking by and sees it and is going to do something about it and grabs a fire extinguisher to put it out. He throws open the 'garage door' and a big ball of smoke hits him in the face along with a lick of flame and he falls back on his *** and then gets up and empties the fire bottle. Wasn't so much a big deal but he tried to make it as such. Of course no one knew anything

I have never had either hand in another person's ***, nor my own. I'm not willing to give it a try to test the theory of how far I'd need to be to lose my ring.

Gee man, gotta be smart and take yer rings off first!!

The very first roof that I sheeted with plywood, I fell off 2 or 3 times. One of the times I was near the ridge. (peak) Often times the spacing of the trusses isn't exact so you have partial sheets nailed in place with the overlap/waste hanging over where you cut it down to size in place. I had a 30" piece hanging over so I went to cut it off. I was standing on the section that was being cut off. Once I cut to the edge of it, it started to slide and I suddenly realized my mistake. I surfed this small section of plywood down the slope and off the whole roof, right over the head of some weed smoker burnout guy that was just walking by.
Whoa..what the hell, man ??
I wasn't hurt but what a sight it must have been to others....me sliding down with a circular saw in my hand, surfing over the head of the jobsite idiot!

I'm cornfused....who was the idiot here??

Many, MANY years ago, I was running 13 ohs/teens at Irwindale, the FIRST one, and I wanted a 12 so bad I could taste it.
I had been running thru mufflers, so I decided to see what I could do uncorked.
Turned out, in the other lane was a car I had looked at earlier, a BOSS 9 Mustang, tuned by Earl Wade, an excellent Ford guy.
I left on him, and held him off to the finish line, picked up a timeslip of 12.96, 107, for my first ever 12 second pass, and beat a boss 429 at the same time.... with a 350 powered four speed 57 chevy.
Now, 12s are really slow, get used to a high9/low 10 car, 12s don't impress.
But it sure is a great memory for me, 40+ years later. More so than any of the races I've won.

A guy at work had a 56 Chevy with a 265 running mid 11's. IIRC, it was running in SS/O. Launched at 10 and shifted at 9! Early 80's. I had a car running 10.60's in 84. Yeah, it's nuts that you can buy a car from a dealer and run faster these days! My first win came from a bracket race in early 98 with a car that was the slowest on the track beating one of the fastest lol. Hard to watch someone get an 8 second head start and not lose your concentration. My light was almost perfect, his was over 3 tenths off and broke out bad while I hit the brake just before the line just to make sure I wasn't going to. The guy I beat also worked at the refinery and got ribbed pretty bad because most of the guys in that unit were Mopar guys lol. He described the car and everyone out there knew me and knew the car was a /6. His was a SBC with a blower on it. Fun times back then!

 

[The Rebel]

Nope, she unwrapped it and saw the candy inside.

Umm...was the hot pot filled with candy plugged in and turned on?

 

[BB BELLA]

wish it was Mrs. Jones!
One night working casino night shift covering for holiday staff! Friday night concert and was told concert had been cancelled for health reasons and VIP's off the property! I was for emergency equipment repair should any air handler/boiler failer! Fire alarm in hotel lights up about 1AM, for top floor room in hotel! I'm first on scene knock on the room door, no response,knock again LOUD ,same! radio down to facility engineer on duty that I'm using my card to enter the room! walk in there's a guy standing in his underwear looking out the window! He turns around and says hey mate whats happening! FFS it's Tom Jones, i said I was told you were gone and fire alarm went off set from this room, whats happening in here! He says my throat was sore so i have the shower running full hot for the steam, radiod back told them all good here, relax! I put a cone over the sensor so it would go back to normal operation! Had a little conversation and he says I guess were all good then, I said yah as soon as the firedept. gets up here and inspects the room, so I suggest you put some clothes on, I have to stay until they arrive!

 

[MarPar]

wish it was Mrs. Jones!
One night working casino night shift covering for holiday staff! Friday night concert and was told concert had been cancelled for health reasons and VIP's off the property! I was for emergency equipment repair should any air handler/boiler failer! Fire alarm in hotel lights up about 1AM, for top floor room in hotel! I'm first on scene knock on the room door, no response,knock again LOUD ,same! radio down to facility engineer on duty that I'm using my card to enter the room! walk in there's a guy standing in his underwear looking out the window! He turns around and says hey mate whats happening! FFS it's Tom Jones, i said I was told you were gone and fire alarm went off set from this room, whats happening in here! He says my throat was sore so i have the shower running full hot for the steam, radiod back told them all good here, relax! I put a cone over the sensor so it would go back to normal operation! Had a little conversation and he says I guess were all good then, I said yah as soon as the firedept. gets up here and inspects the room, so I suggest you put some clothes on, I have to stay until they arrive!

That's not unusual.

 

[33 IMP]

That's not unusual.

Now that's clever!

 

[kiwigtx]

That's not unusual.

Damn....I was going to say that.

 

[MarPar]

Damn....I was going to say that.