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Wed 4 Aug, 2004 07:14 am
Have you or someone you know ever been at the wrong place at the wrong time? The reason I ask is because the other day I was perusing the local paper and happened to see a name which jarred my memory.
The guy in the paper was some local yahoo trying to sell a product, but he happened to have the same last name as I guy I went to school with. A guy I had forgotten about. A guy named Vern.
When Vern was around 12 years of age, he was playing in his parents' haybarn. As he started to leave the barn he noticed a stream of sunlight coming through a knothole in the broad side of the barn. Impulsively he walked over to the knothole and peered outside. How was he to know that at the precise second, or nanosecond, an arrow was about to whisk cleanly through the hole.
Vern put his eye to the hole....wham!.... an arrow sticks into his eye.
His sister had been outside shooting arrows at the side of the barn. She wasn't even aware of the fact that there was a knothole there. It just happened that her first shot went clean through the hole at the exact second that Vern decided to take a peek outside.
Poor guy. What are the odds of that sort of thing happening?
So Vern went through his school years with a cheesy looking glass eye. And whenever someone asked him what happened to his eye, his response was, "I was at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Feel free to add your "wrong place at the wrong time" stories.
I was with the right woman at the right time in the wrong place and her husband (the bartender) took offense.
Darling???????!!!!!!!!!
I didn't recognize you in that hat.......
My second wifes family was very wealth and very conservative and hated me.
One Christmas I was up at their home on the fifth green of the golf course and they were having a family and friends holiday gathering. All was going well, which meant no one was being outright hostile to me, when I stood up and noticed my fly was down. Not the kind of down where someone might notice, but the kind of wide open gaping down that no one could miss. I knew I was not well liked to begin with, so I needed to cover up, so I pointed at the formal living room window and shouted out "Man would you take a look at that!" Everyone turned and looked and I quickly zipped up. I thought I had averted a crisis when everyone, including my soon to be second ex wife turned and bathed me in one of the filthiest looks I've ever been subjected to.
Out in the front yard, two dogs were f*#king to beat the band.........
Oh my god!!!!!! That is f-n funny!
My story may be a little crude.... forgive me.
Teenager time...
I was 14 and I was in the ROTC at high school.. ( yeah I was a rotc dork ...) Any-who.. they had a ROTC ball every year and I went to participate in the presenting of arms. Dressed in what I thought was a great fitting dress.. I pranced my little behind around thinking I was the center of attention. Well, I was... because my dress was stuck in my underware..at the wrong time of the month for a women.
End of story. Let your imagination fill in the rest.
I just about died.
Hmm... that is more of an embarassing moment then a wrong place wrong time story.. oops.. sorry.
OK, now I have a story.
I had just finished reading Bi-Polar Bear's story and just about fell off my chair laughing. I laughed long and loud.
I then turned around to see housemates one and two staring at me. No. 1 looked quite shocked. No.2 looked pleased with himself.
Turns out No.2 (who's taste I have commented on briefly elsewhere) had just told a remarkably offensive (even for him) and sexist joke and I had laughed at the exact moment he told the punchline.
Urrrrrgh. How do I live that down?
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