Funny/Embarrassing, supposedly true story....

[DEZLPWR]

During the local 6pm evening news, Rick, a weatherman

predicted that the area would receive 6 inches of snow

overnight, the first significant snowfall of the year.

As it turns out, the weatherman was wrong and the

area received no snowfall at all. That night, when it

came time for the weather report, the female news

anchor innocently remarked "Hey Rick, Where's that 6

inches you promised me last night?" Immediately, the

other 3 male anchors erupted in laughter, the female

anchor's face turned bright red, and the producers had

to cut right to a commercial.

Talk about embarrassing.....

 

[Jumbo Jet]

I heard it was 8 inches.



Maybe you meant 6 inches - give or take 2 inches.



That's a big difference to some people I know.

 

[rrausch]

Funny True Story that Really Happened to Me!



I was selling WearEver Cookware door to door in 1969. I had a selling-partner named Billy and we made house-calls on single young women, pitching WearEver Cookware to them for their "hope chests". The cookware was expensive but really great cookware, I still have one saucepan left out of my salesman set.



That summer we made a call on a single gal who lived in a basement apartment in a small town in S. E. Kansas. It was a really hot summer afternoon. I still remember the yellow curtains on her basement windows.

It was Billy's turn to make the pitch and he was going on about how great WearEver was. Now we kept each pan in a red-felt bag and during the sales pitch, we pulled them out one by one. It was a way to make things a little more dramatic. So Billy is going on about how great these pans are and he picked up the 10" skillet, pulled it out of it's red felt bag and held it at eye level, looked into the girl's eyes and said sincerely, "Now this skillet is a full ten inches across. "

The girl said, "Oooh I LIKE ten inches!"

And Billy shot back, "How do you feel about two fast fives!"

And we all had a good laugh and went back to the presentation. (That's how it was in those days!)

She didn't buy anything, and we didn't do anything, but it was a funny comback I've remembered all my life.

 

[wcaldwell]

I was 18 in Fresno CA working in a Texaco gas station. I was washing the windows on a car I had just finished doing a L O F. In the office immediately to my left was a man and his wife looking at maps and other stuff. Suddenly the bell rang as if someone had driven to the gas pump island. We were supposed to drop whatever we were doing and take care of the gas island. I looked up and saw a boy riding his bicycle with his little sister on the handlebars had just crossed the bell hose at the island so I went back to cleaning the windows. Then the bell rang again, the boy had ridden over the bell hose at the other island. My co-worker looked at me as if to ask if I was going to run and I called across the shop to him and yelled out, "Don't worry Ray. I't just a boy peddeling his little sister's a@@. "

The man and his wife were still in the office and looked right at me. There was no where to hide.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

I retired from the newspaper business - and here's another supposedly true story...



Newspaper advertising is sold by the column-inch - and there was a particular local advertiser who was always a hard sell. His account was given to a cute new gal, and after explaining how hard it was selling Mr. "Smith" anything, she went on her way. A while later she returned to the office all excited and breathless and loudly proclaimed "I just got 10 inches from Mr. Smith"...



You can guess the rest...