WIT AND HUMOR – A FUNNY SITE BY BOB WAYNE

I was talking to my friend Susan this afternoon. She told me she was going to the liquor store tonight to get herself “a box of drunken tramp”. Then between giggles she told me, “I’ll be the prettiest gal in the trailer park!”

I have weird friends, thank the gods.

Take for instance my friend Dawn. We met in college. No, not college as in a couple of teenagers getting drunk and stupid at the bar after classes. More like a couple of middle-aged people trying to get that degree they never finished because of all the drunken debauchery the first time through school.

We both got BAs in Technical Communication from Metropolitan State University in 2002. I learned two things getting that degree: I hate technical writing and Dawn has a wonderful gift for storytelling. Since great storytellers usually make great writers, (and con artists), I’ve been pushing her to start writing down her stories. Well, woopty-doo, she’s finally agreed to do it.

The stories are all about her adventures with her best friend Cindy. I’m not giving last names here to protect the guilty but anyone who knows Dawn has probably met Cindy. The two of them like to go on vacation and road trips together. Anyone who knows them both also knows they’re a dangerous combination.

One of my favorite writers, H. Beam Piper described them best in his book, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen: “They’re just two little sticks of the same brand of dynamite. What one doesn’t think of, the other one will.”