I really shouldn't have laughed.....

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but I just couldn't help it!

My husband had just made a pot of coffee and was starting my tea. (We make it in the coffeemaker...just put the teabags in the bottom and let the machine heat the water.)

He suddenly realized he had forgotten to dump out the coffee grounds first, so he grabbed the coffee dispenser and whirled around and stomped down on the lever of our big steel trashcan. The lid came flying up and caught the bottom of the coffee dispenser (filled with coffee grounds and half full of hot water) and launched it pretty much straight up! Coffee and coffee grounds exploded all over the kitchen! The look on his face was priceless, and of course, I'm all but rolling on the floor laughing. I was a good doobee and cleaned up the mess, though.

The tea only tastes a little bit like coffee.
 
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sbwertz said:
but I just couldn't help it!

My husband had just made a pot of coffee and was starting my tea. (We make it in the coffeemaker...just put the teabags in the bottom and let the machine heat the water.)

He suddenly realized he had forgotten to dump out the coffee grounds first, so he grabbed the coffee dispenser and whirled around and stomped down on the lever of our big steel trashcan. The lid came flying up and caught the bottom of the coffee dispenser (filled with coffee grounds and half full of hot water) and launched it pretty much straight up! Coffee and coffee grounds exploded all over the kitchen! The look on his face was priceless, and of course, I'm all but rolling on the floor laughing. I was a good doobee and cleaned up the mess, though.

The tea only tastes a little bit like coffee.
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That is unfunny Sharon.
 
skiprat said:
Oh well, at least WE can read maps.:rolleyes:


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Funny you should say that. I have a map fetish! At one time I had one of those big 5 1/4" floppy disk boxes full of mapping software cds. I had Streets and Trips, all the DeLorme products, City Streets, etc. Boxes and boxes of them. I LOVE maps. (I even went to up to the DeLorme headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine, and saw their huge three story tall globe.)

When I was a little girl, my dad was in the oilfield and we moved constantly. My dad would pull the trailer and my mom and little brother and I would take the car. My mom had NO sense of direction, so I was the navigator from the time I was about eight years old. I guess it left me with a lifelong love for maps.
 
What, Roy! I cleaned up the mess. I was already rolling around down there on the floor so I figured I might as well clean it up while I was down there.:biggrin:
 
sbwertz said:
Smitty37 said:
sbwertz said:
What, Roy! I cleaned up the mess. I was already rolling around down there on the floor so I figured I might as well clean it up while I was down there.:biggrin:
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It was unfunny because you might be able to guess who might do that at our house....:tongue:
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And I bet Dee would clean it up, too. (And I bet she would LAUGH, too.)
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Not that Roy, Sharon. My bride would would hand me a roll of paper towels....he name is Helen though.
 
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sbwertz said:
Smitty37 said:
sbwertz said:
What, Roy! I cleaned up the mess. I was already rolling around down there on the floor so I figured I might as well clean it up while I was down there.:biggrin:
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It was unfunny because you might be able to guess who might do that at our house....:tongue:
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And I bet Dee would clean it up, too. (And I bet she would LAUGH, too.)
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Not that Roy, Sharon. My bride would would hand me a roll of paper towels....he name is Helen though.
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I'm sorry, I thought it was OKLAHOMAN who posted that. My bad Leroy. I met him and Dee on a recent trip to OK.
 
jsolie said:
Usually that sort of performance only occurs on early Monday mornings. He must be having a week since it's Tuesday....
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Don't you know they changed the calendar? Every week now had 4 Mondays and a Friday ;)

Great story. Once the shock wore off, did he start laughing as well?
 
Sharon, I wish I had known you about 10 years ago, before I cleaned out. I had several Charts of Hampton Roads waterways up to DC, and several land maps. I decided they were too much clutter so I gave them to some kids.
 
At one time I had maps (reproductions) that showed the land grants and patents in NY State and other NE areas from the King of England and the Massachusetts Bay Coloney et al as they were in the late 1800s. Very interesting.....the patents were really large pieces of land. I gave them away during one of our moves, but I had a lot of fun with them.

When we traveled we had road maps any state we were traveling through in a pocket behind the seat on my pickup truck. If we hit a state where we didn't have a map, we'd stop as soon as we could and get one - we also carried a road atlas, but those maps were not quite as good as the individual maps.
 
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I have all kinds of maps. Topographical maps, historical maps, some REALLY old highway maps from before the interstate system (think route 66) etc. We have a store here in phoenix that is nothing but maps...The Map Store...of course. I've been buying stuff in there for almost 50 years. I have the boxed set of maps National Geographic put out about 30 years ago...came in a bright yellow plastic case. Some atlases of ancient maps of the world, etc. (Even maps of Middle Earth..LOL)

If any of you are in the northeast, next time you go up to Maine, stop in at Yarmouth at the DeLorme showroom. They have the most amazing globe (Eartha) that is three stories high. It is just off the I 295 freeway at exit 17. We stumbled over it by accident once looking for a rest area LOL. It is the worlds largest revolving globe.

http://www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx
 
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Sharon,

I had one similar to that yesterday. I was in a hurry to head out of the office. I went to grab the top to my coffee thermos. Flipped it over, and it was NOT the top of the thermos, it was a full cup of coffee which I proceeded to pour all over my desk.:eek:

I guess I needed a good excuse to clean my desk.
 
SOunds like my Saturday

Tried to empty the shredder into the garbage can. Nothing came out. I moved it a little to see what the hold up was and it dumped all over the floor. But not all of it, I jerked it up to try and keep some in the canister, but it was at just the right place and poofed into the air, snowing all over the rest of the office. The only good thing was I was the only one in the office.

After cleaning it up, I went to help remove the rest of the machines in the old auto machine shop we sold. Lots of chances for big messes, and injuries. We even got the completely full steam tank out with no spillage. There was no place to drain it where it was. The old machine shop was set up in an area that I am sure violated many zoning and safety laws, if they had such things up here back then. I didn't set it up, and when we took the place over I would not let anyone use it. The day started bad but ended on a positive note. You might say my tea tasted a little like coffee too.

Speaking of maps, I heard on NPR that they are no longer going to be printing maps of the coasts. GPS systems have replaced them. Always wanted to get my hands on some.
 
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