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Forwarded from a friend:
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day, Kate, my wife and I went into town and visited a shop.
When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an asshole . He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.
So Kate called him a shit head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.
Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home. We always look for cars with "ROMNEY 2012" stickers. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age.
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)distasteful, but, yeah...
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I'd love to replicate this but it's not often that I happen to see a
cop writing a ticket for a car w/ Romney/Ryan bumper sticker.
..but I am actually "retired" so that's a good start ... I'll keep
my eyes pealed for just such an opportunity.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Orrex
(63,213 posts)They might have gotten tased!
valerief
(53,235 posts)beachgirl2365
(111 posts)Thank you for the laugh!!!! I am going to send this on to my retired friend who is a life long dem in a sea of Red, in a small town in UT,.........This kind of trick is just up his alley!!!
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)cate94
(2,811 posts)Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)but still good..
http://answerology.cosmopolitan.com/index.aspx/question/2898316_Working-people-frequently-ask-retired-people-what-they-do-to-make-their-days-interesting-.html
or:
http://www.theforumsite.com/forum/topic/Working-people-frequently-ask-retired-people-what-they-do-to-make-their-days-inte/427548
Habibi
(3,598 posts)Click and Clack just told a similar joke on last week's Car Talk.
Delmette
(522 posts)They are my inspiration for my retirement years!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Gal Friday
(87 posts)I love it!
spanone
(135,841 posts)clydefrand
(4,325 posts)Best laugh of the DAY. I'm going to do that if I ever get a chance. However, I don't see many stickers for either candidate now. A few Romney signs and less for Obama.
I have my sticker on my van, but I am afraid some idiot might run me down.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)If this was you doing this to a vehicle with Obama stickers there would be howling.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)chalk it to being a nice INDEPENDENT voter and not a partisan voter.
Suffice it to say, if a story like this was for real in my town, I think the paper would run it, as the kind of shenanigans that should not be happening, period. Oh and that is regardless of party.
I know it is a metaphor, a real cop would have asked them for ID for starters... and given them a ticket for a misdemeanor (interfering with a police officer)... that would be all kinds of hoots I tell you,
grantcart
(53,061 posts)worked up for a joke. If however you find the joke in itself offensive be my guest, it actually is a new version of a joke I heard 20 years ago.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)nor did get worked up over it. Just said, I FIND IT IN REALLY BAD TASTE.
I guess that is getting worked up... these days.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)If you want to get upset about a joke go ahead I was simply trying to point out to the replier and others that you might not want to get all worked up about a joke.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)The boss wants to know why I fell off my chair.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)I love it.
Old folks: The original honey badgers. We don't give a shit because we don't have to anymore.
a kennedy
(29,669 posts)this is ....... hilarious
closeupready
(29,503 posts)BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)Worn out tires. these people kill me! Re thugs have screwed them for years and they just come back for more!
supercats
(429 posts)This is something we should all be doing! It's cathartic....I haven't laughed this hard in awhile.
I am telling all my friends about this! Thanks for posting!