[Holly-L] [Fwd: So you think you had a bad day ...]

[Kathy Napolitano]

I liked this one!
Kathy

Bob & Keely Bush wrote:

> Enjoy this one!
>
> SO YOU STILL THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY? THINK  AGAIN.
>
>   The following is taken from a Florida newspaper:
>
>   A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and
>   his wife was in the  house in the kitchen. The man was racing the
> engine
>   on the motorcycle and
>   somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man,
>   still holding the handle  bars, was dragged through a glass patio door
> and
>   along with the motorcycle  was dumped onto the floor inside the house.
>
>   The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining  room where she found
> her
>   husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding; the
>   motorcycle lying next to  him; and the patio door shattered.
>
>   The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance.
>
>   And, because they  lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down
> the
>   several flights of  long steps to the street to direct the paramedics
> to
>   her husband.
>
>   After the ambulance arrived and transported the  husband to the
> hospital,
>   the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it
>   outside. Seeing that gas had  spilled on the floor, the wife obtained
> some papers
>   towels, plotted up the  gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.
>
>   The husband was treated at the hospital and was  released to come
> home.
>   After arriving home, he looked at the shattered  patio door and the
> damage
>   done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went  into the bathroom,
> sat
>   on  the toilet and smoked a cigarette.
>
>   After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between  his legs into
> the
>   toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in
>   the kitchen, heard a  loud explosion and her husband screaming. She
> ran
>   into the bathroom and found him lying on the floor. His trousers had
> been
>   blown away and  he had sustained burns on the buttocks, the back of
>   his legs and his groin.
>
>   The wife again ran to the phone and called for an
>   ambulance.
>
>   The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife  met them at the
> street.
>   The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher  and began carrying
> him to
>   the street. While they were going down the stairs to  the street
> accompanied
>   by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife  how the husband had
> burned
>   himself. She told them and the paramedics started  laughing so hard,
> one of
>   them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband  out. He fell down
> the
>   remaining steps and broke his arm.
>
>   Now THAT is a bad day.
>
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