Soap Box Derby Days

posted over 4 years ago, updated 9 months later | 3 comments
I'd spend the whole summer, working on and racing soap boxes. A local (Erie, PA) auto dealer sponsored The Soap Box Derby each year. Top winners from here would go on to Akron Ohio for the Nationals.

I never won anything, never went to the Nation...

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The Condom Caper!

posted over 5 years ago, updated 10 months later | 0 comments
Many moons ago I worked in a machine shop where they made special machines for packaging condoms.

There were boxes and boxes of condoms there for testing the machines. The shop owner's teenaged son worked there, and he delighted in blowing the th...

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Why Am I Such A Distraction

posted over 5 years ago | 6 comments
A young lady on the cell phone, driving up to my pick-up's backside while I'm stopped at the light. She dang near drove into me as she quickly darted around into the next lane.

Apparently I was a distraction.

I'm at the check-out counter, the c...

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Is it okay if I laugh now?

posted over 5 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 2 comments
Many moons ago when I was managing a bowling center in New Jersey, an employee alerted me that there was water dripping thru the ceiling in the mens room.

We both walked in and I could see water dripping from a rather large bulge in a ceiling til...

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Close Encounter of the Naked Kind

posted over 5 years ago, updated 17 minutes later | 2 comments
Actually it was a sales call

A few years back I invented a solar powered lounger for sun worshippers. It rotated very slowly, under the power of the sun, giving the sunbather a nice uniform and comfortable suntanning experience.

So myse...

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