The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

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Originally Posted by Zombie

Here's the best incident EVAR:

When I first moved back to PA, I didn't have a washer & dryer for a couple of months, and was stuck doing laundry like once a week or so up at a friend's. One night, my daughter got really sick and yakked alllllll over her Care Bears bedding - comforter, pillows, sheets, everything.

Since I couldn't wash it right away, I compromised by stuffing all the dirty stuff into a kitchen size garbage bag - you know, the kinda thin white ones you can sorta see through? And I stuck it out on the porch til the next day when I could go somewhere and get it washed up.

But when I went to get it the next day, it was gone. I imagine someone was strolling by or whatever and saw the Care Bears print through the plastic and thought, "SCORE!!!!!"

I was pissed off at first, because that wasn't cheap stuff, but then I thought about the dumbass getting the bag home, all "Yay!" and stuff, only to rip it open and find everything was covered in partially digested SpaghettiO's.

Then I felt much better.

I raise you.

Last spring, a friend of mine went abroad to France for a semester. She was doing a homestay, so she was living with a French family while she attended school. During the semester, the family had scheduled a vacation, so they asked her if she would be willing to stay alone and housesit for them while they were gone. She, of course, said this was fine, and the family gave her instructions on what to do while they were gone; one of them was that their dog, who had been very sick the past few days, might pass away while they were gone. If this happened, the girl shouldn't worry, they expected it to happen, she just simply has to get the body to the vet and the vet will take care of it.

Of course, the dog dies.

My friend has a minor break down. She didn't have a car and didn't have any idea how she was going to get this dog's body to the vet. Apparently she hadn't thought to ask before the family left. She found a big duffle bag in their closet, though, and figured, eh, 50 or so pounds of dead dog strapped across my shoulders shouldn't be too bad-- I'll take public transport.

So she gets on the subway.

As she boards, she catches the eye of some cute French boy. He comes over and starts talking to her, and she puts the bag down as fast as she can. The last thing she wants is the dead dog getting in the way of her game. In the middle of the conversation, he asks what she's carrying around, and she has new idea what to say, so she just goes with "ugh, my computer broke so I've got to take it to be repaired, and I don't have a car, so I'm stuck carrying it like this." It turns out, they're getting off at the same stop, and as they exit, he asks if he can help her carry the bag since it looks so heavy. She's flustered, but she agrees. She hands him the bag.

He takes off and runs with it.

JTIS.