As I learned, these are funny....until it’s your own father driving into the laundromat.
I laugh now...but that day and the few days later in the media were embarrassing.
Heh. I can do that.
(Always get the rental insurance.)
Reminds me of Candid Camera.
The funniest one I saw was in black and white, probably one of the first episodes. A small mailbox on a pole was ‘talking’ to an older man, asking if the postman was nearby. He talked back and would flag people down and say, “This mailbox is talking to me!” and people would look at him funny and sidle away.
Saw an old guy pull up to a gas pump in a ‘61 Cadillac: “filler her up!”
Attendant: “could you please back up a few feet?” The old man put the car in reverse, stomps on the gas pedal, burns rubber in a large arc out the gas station entrance, on to the highway, back in to another entrance, and finally smashes into the pump, backwards, at 30mph, leaving a great ring of thick white smoke. The attendants put out the ensuing fire and call the police.
Police: “may I see your license sir?” The old man hands the cop his license. The cop reads the license, and then, looking at the old man, tares it up.
The funniest part of the episode was the deadpan stance of the attendant. He didn’t move a muscle or change expression during the old man’s excursion. It was like everything was perfectly normal. Ho hum.
What so special, doesn’t everyone do it this way.. Geeez, this new generation.. :)
Down here in Louisiana we’ve been doing that for years. It starts off with a few beers and a “Hey y’all, watch this!”
Thank you for my first lol of the day—that was hysterically funny!
That was GREAT! Thanks!
That was GREAT! Thanks!
This story reminds me of when I was a wee lad in the 50’s. There was an old guy in town that we called “Old Man Wright”. Anytime we saw him downtown getting ready to parallel park we had to run over and watch.
He would first back into the car behind him and then ram the car in front of him before settling somewhere in the middle. To us young kids this was hilarious.