Tone Parsons

Twenty years ago, I had finally convinced this cute young girl I was working with to go on a date with me.

Of course the first 3 times I had asked her out, she had shot me down. But I kept at it, hoping that she’d eventually say yes. She finally did!

We met up around 6:30 and went out for a bite to eat (I learned that night that she hates green peppers) and then went to C. J. Timothy’s Comedy Underground. The comic was so funny that I nearly spit beer on her at one point.

Thank you, love, for sticking with me for the past two decades! I love you more than you could know!

Normally, I hate joke mail (with a passion) and tend to filter out those who insist on sending it (read: block all their email), but this was all kinds of funny.

Subject: JC Penney 1977
From:xxx@cs.com
Date:Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:03:44 EDT
To: xxxx@toneparsons.com

Last weekend I put an exhaust fan in the ceiling for my wife’s grandfather. While my wife’s brother and I were fitting the fan in between the joists, we found something under the insulation.

What we found was this:

A JC Penney catalog from 1977 Read more