Shouldn't have got out of bed

[mack]

Ever have the feeling you shouldn't have got out of bed. My day started like this. My mother in law needed to be at the hospital at 6 AM for a knee replacement surgery. My wife was supposed to drop her off on her way to work. Well the power went off during the night so none of the alarm clocks went off. Cats wake my daughter up at 530 AM and she wakes us up. My wifes freaking, so I jump out of bed and go pick up mom. I'm taking her the the hospital in my pajama bottoms. No coffee, no smokes, no underwear, no socks and as I realize while in the pay to get out parking lot, no wallet. So now I have to plead my case to the security people in the lobby in my PJ bottoms. I get home, get dressed have a coffee and descide to go over to the shop to finish a couple carb banks I've been cleaning. On the way I figure, since it's going to rain for the next couple days, I should fire up the lawn tractor and cut the deep grass on the septic field. Not a problem only take five minutes. My eldest daughter had washed her car last week and left the hose out in the long grass. I didn't see it until it was too late. Wrapped the hose all around the mower deck blades. Couldn't even cut it free to just park the machine. Had to drop the deck flip it over and spend the 30 minutes trying to cut the friggin hose out of the blades. They were wrapped so tight the bades got bent. Finish with the grass by lunch the finally get over to the shop. Walked in and what do I see, a puddle of green oil sitting on the floor under the right fork on the SF. So I spend the afternoon pulling the forks off and changing the seals. They were "Athena's" that failed so I went to my spare seal box looking for the Denis Kirks I bought only to find they had shipped 36 mm not 37's, I rummage upstairs until I find a second set of Athena's I remember having from 3 years ago and now have to install the same crap again. Just completed that task before the school bus arrives with my middle daughter, so I reach into my bar fridge for the last beer only to find my brother in law drank it a couple days before. I sit on the stoop with a glass of warm tap water to wait for the bus and my dog comes running over. She's a hound and she had just chased and caught a skunk. Spent the rest of the evening shamppoing and washing her down with everything I could find. Now my house smells like skunk. I suppose it's good to get it all out of the way at once, so now I can have good luck the rest of the year.

[Elevener]

Wow, ever hear of paragraphs?

Congrats on the going commando though.

[Joab]

After that day, I think he could be forgiven if he slurred the way through his story. Of course, that might require beer, which was all gone anyway...

[GLoweVA]

Damn, when it rains it pours.
If you put that story to music, you'd have a top 10 country song. LOL

Next time, stay in bed!

[planedick]

They say

The sun comes up, the sun goes down, hands on the clock keep goin round. I jest git up and it's time to lay down. Life gets tejus don't it? My shoes untied, but I don't care I aint plannin on goin nowhere, I'd have to wash my face and comb my hair, wasted effort for sure. etc....

I'll bet there aint many who remember that song by Grandpa Jones. There's a few tales in there like that.

[fredintoon]

The sun comes up, the sun goes down, hands on the clock keep goin round. I jest git up and it's time to lay down. Life gets tejus don't it? My shoes untied, but I don't care I aint plannin on goin nowhere, I'd have to wash my face and comb my hair, wasted effort for sure. etc....

Hi Dick,
amazing what sticks in your memory, eh?
- - - the cock don't crow and the hens don't lay,
the fish quit biting last Saturday,
Hound dog's howlin', so forlorn, laziest dog that ever was born,
He's a'howlin' cause he's sittin' on a thorn,
And just too darn lazy to move over.
The water in the well gets lower and lower,
I ain't had a bath in a month or more,
But I've heard it said and it's true I'm sure,
That too much bathin'll weaken you.
Life get's tasteless, don't it.

[DGXSER]

no underwear, no socks

TMI.....TMI!! There are certain pictures I do not need put into my head this early in the morning, that would be one of them.

[planedick]

Yeah

Yes Fred, when I was young I could recite the whole thing, both records, but I've forgotten most of it now.

I've tried every tonic in the world, I think. But my head's as bald as a kitchen sink, skeeters use it for a skating rink, gets plumb agravating sometimes. There's a mouse chawin on the pantry door, when he gets through he'll sure be sore cause there a darn thing in there. Now old brown must must be sick, I jabbed him in the rump with a pin on a stick. He humped his back, but didn't kick. Somethings cockeyed somewhere.

[TheFrugalTech]

Yep, life can be a real bite in the arse sometimes.
There were even a couple parts of the story where I knew exactly how you felt.

[Cuda 69]

and there's another song out there that says "There's alway's tommorow"