Until Shotgun Do You Part
By Roger ~ October 18th, 2004. Filed under: Humor, Monkey News.
This man shot his wife after mistaking her for a monkey!!!
It’s funny, but I think I can relate. It’s hard to count just how many times I’ve walked out into my back yard and had to ask myself “Is that my wife swinging through the trees, or just another monkey?” Many-a-time I have my trusty shotgun in hand in case those horrid creatures are picking my apples (that would be the monkey, not my wife).
I can sympathize with this guy. When I see a hominid in the yard, standing on a ladder, reaching for fruit, I too get the blood-lust. Adrenaline courses through my veins, causing me to ignore the fact that I know this creature standing in the trees. My rational mind may be, in fact, fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with her. When thinking correctly, I have her size and shape, her hair, her clothing all memorized. Her every movement and action is imprinted in my mind. But none of that matters if there is a possiblity of a monkey in the trees. Gone goes my senses, and up comes the shotgun.
Your world ends when you realize that you’ve actually just shot your wife.
However, when you do nab a monkey out of the trees…man, they are good eatin’!
The poor slob in the article needs to get his eyeglass prescription renewed. Do you think they do that kind of thing in his local penitentiary?
October 19th, 2004 at 10:09 am
Roger, I am amazed WE never got shot as kids. Big Headline “2 kids mistaking as monkeys shot by grandfather!” After all we were alaways swinging from poison sumac as kids lol!
October 19th, 2004 at 10:30 am
roger made me fight to keep from laughing in the computer lab.
October 19th, 2004 at 2:43 pm
Dave: No joke! Oh for the days we could swing through trees! Luckily Grampa wasn’t a
violent sort…
Brian: I think this must be a first!! Score!!! :rmfo:
Thank you both for ignoring the two grammatic mistakes. I’ve fixed them now.
October 19th, 2004 at 11:33 pm
wow! that’s hysterical.
October 20th, 2004 at 11:05 am
The story? :yes:
My part? Thanks.
October 20th, 2004 at 11:37 am
no, not a first.
there’s a haiku thread about your absence on the forum….well, the first page was…after that it was hijacked. I tried.
October 20th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
I must find this haiku! It might be Hall of Fame material…:grin: