Softball buddy Jimmy Hayes starts this weekâs column with this âmomentâ: My wife and I are watching the Late Show last week, and I find a piece of paper with several names on it. I donât recognize any of them. I ask her who these people are. She says, “They are people that I voted for.” I said, âOh, you mean obscure judges on the ballot?â She says, “Oh, no, they are people on âDancing with the Stars.”
Tennis buddy Joe Svoboda of Neighborhood #4 told this one to me recently: Joe and his wife were out having dinner with three other couples, all seniors. Joe proceeded to tell a joke, and when he delivered the punch line, only one couple laughed. The other two said, âWhat did he say?â So Joe turned to face one couple and retold the joke. After they laughed, Joe turned to face the other couple, and once again told the joke. When Joe was telling all of this to me, he said, âThe funny part is, I canât remember the joke to tell it to you.â
Finally, Judy and I were at St. Maryâs for Mass last Sunday, when one of our deacons, Sun City resident Lou Farinella, was delivering the homily. He related his experience traveling and checking into a hotel. He said the desk clerk gave him a key that came in the form of what looks like a credit card. You insert the card in the slot on the room door, and it flashes green so you can enter the room. Lou thought this was cool. A few weeks later, he was on the road again and checked into a different hotel. The desk clerk gave him a similar âkeyâ as the last hotel and said his room was on the 8th floor. Lou got on the elevator with his luggage and proceeded to find his room. However, this time when he entered the card in the slot, he didnât get a green light. He tried it several times, each time using a different method: slow, fast, upside down, nothing worked. Now he had to pick up his luggage and go back down to the front desk for a new card. When he got there, he said to the clerk, âThis card doesnât work.â The desk clerk looked at the card and informed Lou that the card he was trying to use wasnât the card from their hotel. It seems Lou had kept the card from the previous hotel in his wallet, pulled it out by mistake, and was trying to use it in the wrong hotel. Poor Lou, bit by the geezer bug.
Thatâs it for this week. Once again, please keep those âmomentsâ coming. Send them to me at greengeezer9@comcast.net. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sammy
