I Have A Confession

In moving around, the shuffle and bustle of it all, we seem to have misplaced Faye's social security card.  Kind of a problem when you are trying to get the taxes done.  To remedy that problem, Jeffrey had to rush to the SSA building and get her number.

While there, a funny thing happened to him.

As you know, it is a very quiet room.  No one talks in it.  Coughing is even awkward.

As they were all sitting awkwardly in silence, an elderly couple entered and sat near a younger couple.  The older man had a very whisky rough voice.  With more rasp than Jeffrey has ever heard, the man turned to the young couple and said "I have a confession to make.  I am addicted to brake fluid...  but I can quit anytime I want."
His wife didn't say a thing.  She didn't even look at him.  After a bit of silence, he laughed and said "Just kidding."

I love when older people have such great senses of humor.  Awesome!




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Comments

Jingle said…
wow,
what a humor!
I feel odd when I read the old man's words, after reading the "just kidding", I giggled.
beautiful post!
Happy Monday, Amy.
March 1, 2010 at 3:36 AM
Jingle said…
None cat in the boat for my post,
we used to tease people "copycat",
thus, when one cat jumped off the boat, the rest followed. Thus no cats in the boat.

in general, such story does not follow math such as 4-1=3,
thank u for the efforts.
March 1, 2010 at 3:38 AM
tinahead81 said…
that's awesome!! lol
March 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM
Alyssa said…
They have a great sense of humor--and shar it! Sweet.
March 1, 2010 at 6:12 AM
Capt'n Amazing's wife said…
Sounds like his sense of humor is similar to that of my late Grandpa.
March 1, 2010 at 7:08 AM
starnes family said…
I love it, too. Great story!
March 1, 2010 at 7:44 AM
Noodle said…
I sat down to do ours and I didn't know where Allison's was... But I had to keep going while I was at it or who knows when I would get the chance again... So I'm about to file (totaly forgeting that I didn't put her number in yet) A few error codes latter and oh yeah Allys number needs to be put in... But it was nice to see our return jump up when I did find her number and got it in... Oh and old people are the best I love listening to them and there funny storys and sense of hurmer...
March 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Vic said…
Old people are weird! They come up with crazy stuff!:) So you never found the card. I hate losing things and then they slowly come up!
March 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM
Sue said…
I can imagine being the wife...it made me chuckle. She's probably heard him say that more times than she can count...

;)
March 1, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Lara said…
Oh that is funny! I, too, thought of the wife. I've only been married 10 years, and I feel like my husband's jokes are awfully old by now. She was probably rolling her eyes.
March 1, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Katie Lane said…
Very awesome. I love old people, they are so cute and funny!!
March 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Erin said…
What a great story! I wonder what his wife thought, since she didn't say anything or look at him?
March 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Emmy said…
Lol! That is awesome. Someone needed to break the silence :)
March 1, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Em said…
oh i love funny old men, hahahaha. my grandpa was that way. sigh, miss him:-)
March 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM
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