My husband's friend is a cartoon character.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Honey came home yesterday with a story about his friend, lets call him, Wiley. Wiley has had several incidents where he comes off looking a little stupid. Here’s the latest:

Wiley needed to fix his roof. It’s a steep roof. Being a fireman, he’s trained in high angle rescue, so he knows about ropes and knots to keep himself safe.

So, he ties off to the bumper of his truck, tosses the rope to the other side of the roof, then ties himself to the other end.
He works on the roof for about 20 minutes, making good progress.

Then he hears the front door open and his 17 year old son’s voice saying, “Ok Mom, I’ll be right back. Is there anything else you need?” Said son loves to drive, he’ll volunteer for any errand.

Wiley yells, but kid is too fast and is already starting the truck.

Wiley franticly starts untieing the rope; better to fall off the roof than to be dragged behind the truck. he just wasn’t quite fast enough.

The truck takes off and so does Wiley, over the roof. The knot gives way just as he reaches the other edge of the roof and he lands in the junipers in front of the house.

His wife sees something fall from the roof, while son drives off dragging a rope.

He must live a charmed life. He skinned up his knees and one hand, but otherwise he’s fine.

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oooh… that boy’s gonna be grounded for life!

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I find the use of the nickname in the OP offensive.
This guy was no “Wiley” if there was no turbo, jet engines or Acme involved.

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Oh, that’s just one of his stories. He’s described at work as a s**t magnet.

SylverOne, no, mom told him to take the truck. It was Wiley that was grounded, literally.:smiley:

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I keep replaying the OP’s scene over and over in my head, grinning like a fool. If only someone had gotten it on YouTube!

Any more cartoonish stories of Wiley?

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How do you walk up to a truck, get in, and start driving without noticing that there’s a rope tied to it and going up and over the house?

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Unless their are boobs on that rope–no 17 year old boy is going to notice it. :smiley:

I have a friend who did the ‘tie to the truck thing’ too but he had the foresight to take the wire off one battery terminal or he would have done the same thing. Damn kids!

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Happens all the time in cartoons, sitcoms, and good stories.

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Ok, one more. he and his family were moving from the Seattle area to Cle Elum, about 150 miles.
It was a warm day, so he changed from jeans to shorts., leaving the jeans on the bedroom floor.

His wife came behind him, picked up the jeans and threw them in a box, carried it out to the rented u-haul.

Wife went off in her car to run some errands. His car was parked behind the u-haul. He wanted to move it to be ready to go when wife came home. He remembered his keys were in the pocket of the jeans. He called wife to find out what box the jeans were in, but she had left her cell home.

He climbed into the u-haul to look for the jeans. He looked into a few boxes, but he’d been up since 3:00 AM, and the couch looked sooo good. He decided he’d take a little nap, just until wife got home.

Son gets home from school, looks in the house for a parent, can’t find anyone. He needs to leave for work, so he decides he’d better go. He has his own set of keys to dad’s car.

Since he finds no one home, he figures he’d get blamed if anything got stolen from the truck. He closed it up and locked it. The couch was facing away from the back of the truck, so he didn’t see dad.

Wife gets home. No car, no Wiley. She calls the fire station, no Wiley. She called the local pub, no Wiley.
So, pissed, she get into the u-haul and off she goes.

As soon as the truck starts, he realizes what a predictament he’s in. He can’t get up to the front of the truck to pound on the wall. He tries to yell, but no help. Since he’s been asleep for quite a while, he had to pee. Being in the dark, hot truck made him car sick. He held out for almost 4 hours before his wife heard his pathetic cries.

He was so proud of himself for neither peeing nor vomiting inside the truck.

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I like Wiley!

He sounds like a good friend of mine - Things just happen to him.

More Wiley stories!!! More!!!

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Um, no, not really. He does things that are kinda dumb, once you think about it.

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Next you’ll tell us he went cross-country using only roller skates, a little fan, and a bedsheet sail.

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My father claims to have known a person like this–lets call him “Nutty Professor.” He couldn’t find his car after he was done teaching his classes, so he gave up, called the cops, reported the car stolen, and got a ride home.

The next day he came back to the university and saw the car. He got in, drove away, and was promptly arrested for driving a stolen vehicle.

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I dunno. This is at least the 4th time I’ve heard this same story over the years.

Just sayin’.

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I think his cartoon is more like “The Adventures Of Wiley & Son”.

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Besides which, the name is “Wile E.” :slight_smile:

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Mean Mr. Mustard, you may have heard the same story, but my husband saw the bruises on his hands and knees.

I’ve got one more, a short one.

A few years ago he was given the honor and responsibility of bringing a new fire truck to the station from the finishing shop. It was licenced, but not yet covered by the department insurance.

He was told to be very careful, no stops, to bring it STRAIGHT back to the station.

Well, he was hungry. He figured one stop wouldn’t hurt. So, he tried to go through the drive-thru at Burger King. He took out half the Burger King sign and the light bar. Then, instead of dealing with it, he left. He said, in his hearing, that he didn’t notice that he’d done any damage.

The amazing thing is, he didn’t lose his job over it.

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No no no … the truck was a Willys.

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No, silly it was a fire truck

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One end of the rope is tied to the truck. If the other end was laying on the ground, or going down into a hole, then I could understand someone not seeing it. But that’s not what this was. The rope was tied to the truck, and then went up in the air. There’s no direction you can approach the truck from where that isn’t super, screamingly obvious.