I celebrated the Fourth by going to yard sales, and found some fascinating old (more than 100 yrs old) books about Yorkshire, England, and a WWII atlas (1942) with plane recognition outlines for the Allies and Axis, and war timelines, etc. Also found a neat little lamp with a brand new shade (still in plastic wrap). The lamp's base is a frog looking up, holding a crown between its raised front legs. Too cute! It's the frog prince! Another good thing that happened was that I saw one of our theatre kids who graduated a year ago - always nice to see the grads. And one of the best things was something that didn't happen. I was in the mall parking lot, about to turn into one of the perimeter roads from the lane between parking spaces - and luckily caught a glimpse of bright yellow out of the corner of my eye, just in time to keep from hitting one of the guard poles around a fire hydrant. I was so close to them that they were below my car window! Close call! Don't want to know what bright yellow paint would look like scraped against my dark blue car.
Now for the funny stuff, from this morning's paper:
1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The flight attendant says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."
2. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, "I've lost my electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first one replies, "Yes, I'm positive."
3. A blonde was driving toward San Diego when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man came up to her car and asked if she was going to San Diego, and she said yes and offered him a ride. The man said he didn't want a ride, but he had 2 chimpanzees in the back of his truck that had to be taken to the San Diego Zoo. Could she help? He would pay her $100. Sure, she said. Several hours later the truck driver was driving through San Diego when he saw the blonde walking down the street with the 2 chimps, holding them by the hand. "What the heck are you doing here?" he demanded. "I gave you $100 to take those chimps to the zoo!" "Yes, you did," said the blonde, "but we had money left over, so we're on our way to Sea World."
There now! Didn't it feel good to at least smile, if you didn't laugh? Happy Fourth, y'all!
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i wonder if my mum & dad celebrated...they're in the US atm on holiday. 