Sometimes you just have to be there. I get it. Sometimes you hear a story that someone thinks is hilarious, but you just don't think it's that funny. Hopefully you, one of 7 readers, will enjoy this story as much as I did when I lived it.....
So I'm at work, and I'm walking through the store, and I walk up to a couple of associates standing there talking. Alicia is staring off in to space, as if she were in deep thought...
Me - "Alicia, what are you thinking about?"
Alicia - "Jen told me the miles she has on her truck, and I'm trying to figure out the decimal point."
Me - "Oh, ok. Jen, how many miles do you have on it?"
Jen - "Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles."
Me, looking puzzled.... - "Um... you mean Two Hundred Ten Thousand, right?"
Jen - "No, Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles."
At this point, I had given her the chance to correct herself, and she didn't take it. Maybe she was just tired. Maybe she hadn't taken a math class in a while. Maybe she didn't see the huge grin beginning to form on my face. So me, being the nice guy, tried to give her another chance to get out of it...
Me - "Jen, that's not a real number."
Jen - "No, when I bought it from the guy, he told me that's how many miles it had on it. He had it on a farm and they drove it alot."
Me - "Well Iv'e heard of some old Toyota's getting up to a million miles, after 20 years or so, but that's about it." (At this point I'm just trying to wrap up the conversation so I can go somewhere and laugh....)
Jen - "Well he said Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles on it."
Me - "Well, whatever you paid for your truck, you have certainly got your money's worth!"
So I walked away, and the whole time, Alicia is still trying to figure out the decimal point.
I couldn't keep myself from laughing the rest of the day. I would think about the seriousness in her answers and I would start to grin and crack up.
Unfortunately, Jen quit, and is moving to Alaska with her boyfriend.
According to mapquest, it is 3227 miles from Englewood to Anchorage.
That would put her Toyota truck at
Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand Three Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Seven miles when she gets there....I think...
Oh what a feeling....Toyota!
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I dunno.... I'd think it'd actually put her mileage at two hundred and thirteen hundred thousand double-eleventy tens and seven miles...if I understand correctly. What I don't understand is what any of this has to do with a decimal.
ReplyDeleteI think Alicia was trying to be nice and actually figure out what the hell the number was supposed to be...or....she really believed it was a real number.
ReplyDeleteMission accomplished, funny story relayed.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it would've been funnier to be there since I could just picture your grin forming.
Maybe she should write Toyota and tell them all about it, they probably haven't had a good laugh in a while...
You see, you thought that wouldn't be as funny read than said. I totally knew the outcome, laughing until the end. Stop doubting yourself and POST!
ReplyDeleteOne time (ha!) someone didn't laugh at a joke I said - instead of taking the defensive, I took the offensive.
You ever watch Seinfeld?
"Yeah."
You think it's funny?
"Yeah."
Well, what's happening there is that there are like, 10 Harvard educated television writers, writing for 80 hours a week. That's 800 hours of Raw Humor - wittled down to 22 minutes of sitcom. What you're getting here is Raw Humor.
"Oh."
Now get lost and stock the SpongeBob SquarePants SquarePlates...