In Need a Humor Break

Hello folks, let’s chat…My fellow Americans, we’re in bad need of a humor break. The trick is lightening the mood without insulting someone’s mama, politics or religion. For incurable storytellers like yours truly, this can be like walking a tightrope. But don’t take my word on it. Ask that guy who got fired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Y’all may have heard his story but I’d love to revisit the details together, just for fun.

Our wannabe comedian’s job was to send out traffic alerts, notifications about bad weather and road work. Well, Funny Guy went a tad off script, warning commuters instead of female drivers, rain, and Obamacare. Apparently, he thought he was sending his joke around in an internal test of the system— but it made it to the big screen. Oopsy, daisy…

For the record, it’s not like the guy missed it by a country mile. The roads are slick when it rains, and Obamacare is a natural disaster. True, it’s unfair to stereotype all of us women drivers, but I still say we need to lighten up, y’all.

My late mother-in-law was a notoriously poor driver, but she had a fine sense of humor and she made up for what she lacked in driving skills by entertaining our small town in her legendary over-sized vehicles. MawMaw’s rolling tanks were an extension of her great big personality. Why, she even decorated them for Christmas with a big green wreath wired onto the front grill, gaily lit up with battery operated lights. This made it easy to see MawMaw coming and going, which ended up being a good plan.

The joke was that no one around here minded giving Mawmaw Lucy half the road, as long as they could figure out which half she wanted. True story: We used to turn MawMaw’s car around for her and point it in the right direction, just to give her a fighting chance to get out of our driveway without someone having to call the insurance people.

Uh, oh, I said the insurance word. I hope I don’t fire me.

Speaking of a humor break, however, I happened to have just what the doctor ordered.

Remember when I told y’all that Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty was coming to ATS LIVE? Well, not only did Uncle Si show up, but Mountain Man dropped in, too! Now, THAT was a show for the books.

The two of them treated us to an hour long humor break and I’ve got the podcast up for y’all at Shellie.TV.  Honestly, I think we could’ve talked for hours.  All I had to do was toss out a subject and Uncle Si would knock it out of the park.

I hope you enjoy!

Hugs, Shellie

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