I can’t find the original ‘funny things said thread’…I’m lazy (or really tired).
I’m at the Denver Grand Prix today, wandering through the pits and find one of the teams is selling used parts. Stuff they usually just throw away at the end of the race weekend, but I figure buy it give them money for lunch. So, for $25, I’ve got two titanium valves, and a HUGE Heavy Brake Rotor. It’s twice the biggest rotor you’ve ever seen on a street going car.
So I supidly bought a 70 lb.(*) chunk of iron and slogged around all day with it in my backpack. (not really, I weighted it and it’s only 20 lbs. but MAN did it feel like more)
So my partner in crime is visting the men’s room and I’m looking at a Ferrari 360 on display.
He walks up and I snobbily say:
“I’ve got bigger brake rotors on my person.”
And we giggle like little school girls sharing a silly joke.
Well, it was funnier in person.
If you’re a guy.
And you helped carry the backpack around all day.
This one happened today, just a little while ago.
The backstory: My girlfriend and I recently took a trip to Scotland/England/Ireland. One leg of this trip was a train from York, England, to Liverpool, England. We waited for the 15:37 train only to find out it was canceled due to lack of driver. So we waited over an hour for the 16:41 train. I asked a guy-in-a-uniform train station worker dude if the train pulling up before our eyes was going to Liverpool, and got an affirmative response. So we hauled our luggage onto the train, and it started moving, and we were well out of the station when the announcer welcomed us aboard the express service to London. So we got off at Doncaster, went back to York, and got on the proper train.
Today: We were walking in the PABT subway terminal, and Continental Airlines has some ads on the wall advertising a new nonstop flight to Bristol. The ad reads. “Want to go to Bristol? Then don’t go to London.” So we both saw it and chuckled at it, and then I sad, (this is the punchline, folks) “Want to go to Liverpool? Then don’t go to London.”
She spent the next five full minutes beating up on me.