Are people funny, or what?

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Husband helped someone out with computer problems. This person had seen my summer garden, which at the time was noticeably full of acorn squash. I guess she made a strong connection in her mind: "Joan really, really likes acorn squash." So to thank husband for the work, she gave him--acorn squash. One of the reasons I like this squash is because you can grow it in the summer, harvest it, and have lots of fresh squash all through the winter. So we have plenty of squash from our own garden. I put the gift grocery store squash in the pile with the garden squash.

Do things like this happen to you? Maybe you own a gas station and someone gives you a gift card to a competitor's gas? Maybe You are a cotton farmer and someone gives you a bag of cotton balls? Maybe you are a tax preparer and someone gives you copies of instructions to fill out a EZ tax form they'd printed off the IRS website?

[Sporkman]

Sometimes people don't think things through completely, but hey, it's the thought that counts.

Or maybe she has good sense of humor...

[am_vanquish]

LOL, this happened to me about a week ago, although it was intended to be humorous on purpose.

I'm a Math major graduating next May and the people I work with (non math geeks) decided to give me a HUGE calculator that is about as big as my 19" monitor and has buttons the size of a moose's head. It only does simple arithmetic, and everyone knows I carry 3 other calculators that can do a wide variety of tasks while I'm attending classes. My cell phone can do more math in it's sleep than this calculator can on steroids. Still it was funny, although I haven't figured out what to do with it now (re-gift maybe?)

[simpleyme]

when my DH was a young man he was a butcher(was the family business he was the 5th generation ,good money by the way)
anyway everyone would come in from hunting and ask him when he would be going hunting after work! Hello skins animals for a living all day long, no desire to do it in his free time

not the same as being paid for work in squash tho what a sadly funny story Joan

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

am_vanquish, that is funny!

Does it have a huge display, too? Maybe a grade school teacher would like it, for showing "the work" to groups.

[am_vanquish]

am_vanquish, that is funny!

Does it have a huge display, too? Maybe a grade school teacher would like it, for showing "the work" to groups.

That's a great idea, I should donate it to a local school or a mentoring program. Thanks Joan!!

[MonkeyMama]

LOL.

I laughed when I originally saw this, but now I have a funny story to share.

A relative from the northeast shipped us fresh fruit (out of some mail order thing). IT is funny, we have fruit out our ears here in California this time of year. & we get shipped the fruit that is growing and ripening in our very backyard at the moment. we got a chuckle out of it. I am sure she shipped it from california, or the west coast anyway.

Incidentally my coworker lives on land with a mandarin orchard and has given me about 8 bags of mandarins in the last month. Next time I should ship some back east I guess. I am sure our relative thought it was a great winter treat. But probably the last thing I Wanted to see was more fruit. Hehe.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Anyone who lives with citrus trees would be a hero to all family members they mailed citrus to in temperate zones. To us, it is like something miraculous to think of them growing in your back yard!

I was just this week wishing that I could live where I could just go out to the yard to pick some grapefruit. But then I realized that wouldn't be where I could just go out and pick some apples. Oh, the pulls in opposite directions!