I lived 10 years in New Mexico. Yes, NEW Mexico. You know, Albuquerque...where Bugs Bunny should have made that left turn? I don't know how many times I was asked what it was like to live in a foreign country, or was tried to be charged international rates when buying something off Ebay. OR when I went to visit my family in Indianapolis, I was asked how life was in Arizona, or how I was doing down in Texas. Damn...I think one of the 50 states is now missing...When did THAT happen????? Ain't life funny.....

So I was having a beer down at Fast Eddie's Bon Aire the other day, and struck up a conversation with a guy at the bar. Turns out he was a soldier back from Iraq. I told him how much I appreciated his service to this country, and how I don't think I could do a job like that. He asked me what I did, and I told him I worked at an oil refinery, and HE told ME he wouldn't want MY job. Ain't life funny sometimes?


Back in college, I ended up in the emergency room for stitches after spending all day sledding around on an old pickup truck hood tied to a ATV, and having a major wipeout, in which I cut my chin open on a beanstalk in the field. I thought I had the best story in the ER, when I started talking to some old guy who ran into a tree after falling asleep on his ATV. I lost that bet. Life really IS funny sometimes.

I moved here for a new job after getting laid off from my OLD job of 10 years when they decided to close our factory and move the operations to China and Vietnam (No, that part of life was NOT funny) Yup, I'm a Metro East newbie. The deal is, I grew up (HA.HA.) in Indiana, where I was taught to be a good Hoosier. So I move here, and I hear some guys at work calling one of the other guys a Hoosier. And I was like "What's wrong with that.... be PROUD you are from Indiana, man". He told me he is from Michigan. Oops. Life is funny when you are a proud Hoosier 'round these parts. GO COLTS!

I was on vacation a few years back, and met up with a father and son from jolly ole England. We attempted a conversation, but I got confused when they started talking about Lifts, boots, Birds, Lorry's, and Geezers. I think they were equally confused by me saying how it was "COOL" on a 90 degree day, how I drank my tea sweet with a lot of ice in it, and when I told them what and how I wasn't for-kiddin when telling a story. In the end, we agreed that Budweiser sucks, Boddington's pub ale is good stuff,English rainy cold weather sucks, fish and chips are a hidden treasure, and a Midwestern guy saying "BLOODY HELL" is always good for a few laughs. Even the British think life is funny sometimes.


2 guys walk into a bar. The 3'rd one ducks. I don't care who you are, that's STILL funny.

Sit around and people watch. That's always good for some laughs. On a good day, you can watch some business man talking on his phone so distracted he walks into a women's restroom. A few screams later, he figured out he needed to call whoever back and get the hell out of dodge.