Showing posts with label Day 172 of 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Day 172 of 2013. Show all posts

Friday, June 21, 2013

They travel to Mexico and begin to set up on a square in a small town.

Alice and Frank are bungee-jumping one day. Alice says to Frank, "You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping service in Mexico.

Frank thinks this is a great idea. So they pool their money and buy everything they'll need: a tower, an elastic cord, insurance, etc.

As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble. Slowly, more and more people gather to watch them at work.

When they finish, there's such a crowd they think it would be a good idea to give a demonstration.

So, Alice jumps. She bounces at the end of the cord, but when she comes back up, Frank notices that she has a few cuts and scratches.

Unfortunately, Frank isn't able to catch her and she falls again, bounces, and comes back up again. This time, she is bruised and bleeding.

Again, Frank misses her. Alice falls again and bounces back up. This time she comes back pretty messed up; she has a couple of broken bones and is almost unconscious.

Luckily, Frank finally catches her this time and says, "What happened? Was the cord too long?"

Barely able to speak, Alice gasps, "No, the bungee cord was fine; it was the crowd. What in the world is a pinata?

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Slept good again . last night that is


Pick up the sleeping meds at Walmart a while ago.  I don't know it for a fact but I sense the Coors Bypass Walmart pharmacy is starting to come apart at the seams.  Ever since Susie, the   Pharmacist left , orders are getting lost, prescriptions called in disappear, etc.  My renewal for Zolpidem was instituted and cancelled at least 4 times.  Finally, today, I spoke with a human and told her the story.  Go figure it (the scrip) was waiting for someone to pick it up.  Oh well

Thought this story was cute.

 Diver finds 97-year-old message in bottle

DETROIT (UPI) -- A diver in Michigan located a message in a bottle from two young women sent nearly 100 years ago, historians said.

Selina Pramstaller and Tillie Esper, who lived in Detroit in 1915, wrote a simple note while visiting Tashmoo Park in Harsens Island, a popular recreation destination for Detroit residents at the time.

Their message, in neat cursive writing: "Having a good time at Tashmoo."

They put the note, written on the back of a receipt that included their names and addresses, in a glass bottle with a cork and tossed it the St. Clair River where, 97 years later, Dave Leander went diving. He spotted the bottle sticking out from under about 6 inches of silt and brought it to the surface, the Detroit Free Press said Tuesday.

Leander and his wife, Pam, researched the writers and the area, which is where the old Tashmoo ferry used to dock. An amusement park, bathhouse and public beach were favorite summertime spots for many Detroit residents until the park was closed in 1951.

Leander has loaned the bottle and its message to the Harsens Island St. Clair Flats Historical Society, which is coincidentally holding Tashmoo Days, a celebration of the island's heyday, next month.

The group went on to research the note's writers. Pramstaller married and had a child before divorcing and becoming a nurse while caring for her widowed father in the 1940s. Esper lived to the age of 91 and had nine children, eventually moving to Dearborn, Mich., the research showed.


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