[2099] in Humor
HUMOR: A bad day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 6 11:34:33 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:29:50 EDT
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:16:40 -0500
From: Joe Ziehler <ziehler@psicorp.com>
So you think you're having a bad day? The following is taken from a
Florida newspaper:
A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in
the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the
motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man,
still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door
and the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.
The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her
husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying
next to him and the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone
and summoned an ambulance. Because they lived on a fairly large hill,
the wife went down the several flights of long steps to the street to
direct the paramedics to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and
transported the husband to the hospital, the wife up righted the
motorcycle and pushed it outside.
Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some
papers towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the
toilet. The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to
come home. After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door
and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went
into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After
finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the
toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen,
heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the
bathroom and found her husband laying on the floor. His trousers had
been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back
of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone and called
for an ambulance.
The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the
street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began
carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to
the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the
wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the
paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher
and dumped the husband out. He fell down the remaining steps and
broke his arm.
