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1. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   The college I attended had a large freshman dorm. One side for girls, one side for guys and the fire doors between the two sections were welded shut to separate the two sides. Cue someone drilling a hole through the door to watch girls running down the hall in their underwear. The hole also became a pop-bottle rocket portal. Then the previous person in my room told me of sticking the nozzle of a fire extinguisher in it, turning it upside down to activate it, and holding it there till he heard sirens. A white fog about 8 inches deep went all the way down the girl’s hall. He stuck the extinguisher above the roof panels in the bathroom and played innocent. I checked and the extinguisher was still there. I left it there and sometimes wonder if anyone every found it.

2. 15 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Daughter worked at a movie theater. We would be waiting for her to come home after work so we could munch on the large bag of leftover popcorn. Another time at a chicken place, guy asked if we wanted a deal on some bird close to closing time. Got a bucket with a lid that couldn’t fit on top anymore…

3. 15 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Growing up we had one of those aluminum trees with a rotating color wheel spotlight. The limbs were stored in paper rolls so my brother and I pulled out the “swords” and stuck them in the pre-drilled holes in the trunk. Decades later, my wife and I just enjoy the trees at the kiddo’s house. I even tossed our large fake tree since we do very little if any decorating. I think that aluminum tree is still in the attic at my parent’s house along with the metallic loud clanking lawnmowers our grandparents gave us. (Mom & Dad never said anything. They just waited till we were preoccupied with other toys and stuffed them up in the attic. What would those antiques be worth today? Hmmmm)

4. 2 months ago on Baby Blues

   Brother and I used to walk the railroad tracks by grandma’s house. One of the railroad spikes we found got left in the yard. Fortunately, (?) it was an older heavy-duty Briggs & Stratton, so it only left a big dent in the mower deck and bent the shaft. Dad always complained it never ran right after that.

5. 3 months ago on Batch Rejection

   It’s just happened at our local wholesale club…Halloween on one aisle, blow-up Santas on the next aisle. What happened to Thanksgiving? I guess they can’t rush the frozen turkeys too much. Freezer-burned would set in.

6. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Overseas, power went out in the house. Main breaker was tripped. Turned off all the switches then slowly turned them back on one at a time. Every time I got to the kitchen, boom. (Great, fridge or stove?) Wife commented son had come running out of the kitchen like a bat out of hell. Yep. Fork in the toaster. Everything was fine after that, although I don’t think he ever asked for Pop-Tarts again.

7. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Many years ago, sitting watching TV and the power went out. About 3 seconds later I heard a loud “Boom!” Went out on the back porch and saw a single large black cloud of smoke wafting across the sky. Squirrel caused a massive short, blacking out about a square mile. TV news showed what was left of the poor thing, which wasn’t very much.

8. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Then his son went through ROTC and became one of those officers that he hated.

9. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   My dad was drafted during the Korean war. Going through basic, they asked who could type. He could so he went to radio-teletype training, then went on to Europe. He did not like the military and thoroughly researched what he had to do and had to have for separation. He had it all, watched it get loaded on the ship back to the US, and when he got back his records were lost so he had to spend two more weeks in the Army.

10. 6 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    My wife and I moved here 36 years ago with four kids. Now it’s just me and her but it would probably take five roll-offs to downsize enough to move somewhere else. A single level house would be nice, but here I know where everything is without turning on a light.