It’s not as nefarious as it sounds. It was the middle of the depression and my grandpa Roy had a small farm. In the middle of the night he heard some racket, and saw someone riding off on a horse. The stranger had one of my grandpa’s pigs under his arm. So grandpa grabbed his […]
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My wife Heather has posted a funny and extensive story about her many jury duty experiences over the past few years over at her blog. I’ve never had to go to jury duty, but I was subpoenaed to appear as a special witness a few years ago because I had worked with the local police to draw […]
My friend Kaleb notices everything. EVERYTHING. I found this out a few years ago when I started my job. I got up as usual one morning, got dressed, got in my car and went to work. When I stepped out of my car, I looked down and noticed that I had put on two different […]
The myth: Jurors are picked randomly. That is, the procedure that picks prospective jurors is done by a computer that randomly selects names from a list of all of those who live in a certain county, city, town, state. This is why I believe this myth to be false: I have been served with jury duty notice 4 times […]
Several years ago I wanted to do something cool for my wife, so I wrote about a dozen little notes, printed them off and folded them neatly. Then I took them around to a dozen of my friends to ask them to deliver them to Heather for me. The idea was akin to having flowers […]
My dad was a welder and a torch-cutter. Years ago he was working night shift a place in the Kansas City area. One of the pranks the guys would play on each other is to make a little bomb out of a plastic bag filled with acetylene and oxygen, put a masking tape fuse on […]
First, let me thank you all for your prayers, cards and food. I was not anticipating spending three days in the hospital and I appreciate everything. I haven’t updated in quite a while so I plan on doing several all in one post. My husband hates seeing my posts cause he thinks I should separate ideas more, […]
A few Christmases ago my daughter received a toy airplane. It was a styrofoam model, designed for flight. Inexplicably, the company had packaged it in one of those irritating hard blister packs. It was no surprise then, when the plane got broken during the process of extricating it from the package. “I’d like to kill […]
Having grown up watching Looney Tunes my whole life, there are just some gags that I just take for granted. For example, animals can disguise themselves as chickens simply by putting a red rubber glove on their heads. I had forgotten this, and had even forgotten there being a time when the difference between a […]
So, I have been having pain in my right side just below the lowest part of my rib for about a week and a half. My first reaction was to ignore it and it would get better after a few days. Alas, my body doesn’t take orders from anyone and I finally went to the doctor. My […]