Category: random idiocy

  • David Alexander

    I got what must have been the very worst prank phone call I’ve ever answered in my life. Not annoying, rude or obscene, just a really, really dumb crank call. The phone rang at about ten-thirty. My Darling B will let it ring and ring because most of the phone calls we get are salesmen,… Read.

  • old codger

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    I have officially become a codger: I took delivery of my recliner today. It’s even called a “Lounge-O-Matic.” If that’s not codgerish, I don’t know what is. It immediately cast its spell over me; I wrote this drivel while reclined in its lounge-o-riffic embrace. When we first began shopping for what we call “grown-up furniture”… Read.

  • sports agnostic

    Apparently the Milwaukee Brewers (that’s baseball, right?) traded a player to, well, another team … I forget which. I heard about it only because a guy was trying to explain it to me in the break room at work yesterday and he didn’t get the signal that he was speaking to a sports agnostic. Under… Read.

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