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Now this here is a true story. I am sad I never got to meet my uncle as many of my older generationms claim he was a great man. Anyway, I thought I would share this story with ya.
Now my uncle was a ritetous man. He lived his life honest and read the bible everyday. Everysunday he would go to church. Many people in the church knew him and his habit though. It wasn't a bad habit or anything, but during the service, he would turn the volume up on his pocket transistor radio and listen to the sports as he was a big fan.
He didn't tune out the service or the sermon though. And he was known to be able to tell you the sermon and the score of his team if you asked. Now one day there happened to be a new pastor at his church. He didn't know of my Uncles little habit.
He gets in the pulpit and lets the service flow along smoothly untill it is time for one of the songs the choir is to sing. As they stand up to sing, my Uncle turns his radio up just slightly. The pastor seeing this, motuions for the chior to sing louder.
The chior gets louder and again my Uncle turns his little raido up. When this happens a third time, the pasor looks to him and back at the chior and replies in a very loud voice, "You'll have to sing louder folks, our brother Donald can't seem to get his hearing aid up loud enough."
Yeah that was my uncle for ya. I'm sure there was a good laugh that day, and I am sure Uncle Donald was embarresed. Still though, he kept that radio with him when he went to church or so I am told.
This one is true too, I wanted to add it after I posted this one lol
Now, I am not sure if the Donald above is the same, or if I named my Uncle wrong in that story, but this is a different Uncle here.
Now I had another Uncle. One day he dcides to do something really nice for his wife, so he sets reservations up at a very expensive resturant. My Aunt gets home and he doesn't tell her why, but he tells her to dress nicely.
My Aunt smiles and goes and changes quickly and comes back out to him wearing a tuxedo. Surprised, she asks where they are going and he tells her to wait and she will see.
They get in the car and drive for what seems like an hour and get to the resturant. The pull into the Valet parking. He hands his keys to the youn man and takes his wife's arm and leads her inside.
The place is beautiful and by now it is eas to see that this is one hard place to get into. He walks up to the reservatopn table and asks to be seated. The Matre'd looks at his paper and shakes his head, "I am sorry sir, I can not find you on my list."
Slightly aggrivated, my Uncle looks to the paper and he sees as well that his name is not there. So he asks to speak to the person that takes the calls. After a few minutes, the phone manager comes out, "Can I help you sir?" He asks.
My uncle explains what happened and as he does so, the manager's face turns a bright bright shade of red. My uncle looks over then, "Is there something wrong sir?" The manager shakes his head, "No...I just thought when you called it was a prank phone call..."
Now this is where its funny, My Uncles name is Donald.....his last name....Duck. Yes they all had a good laugh at that, and I am sure after meeting Donald Duck in the flesh, that they gae him a new reservation. I often wonder though if my Aunts name might have been Daisy?
Now my uncle was a ritetous man. He lived his life honest and read the bible everyday. Everysunday he would go to church. Many people in the church knew him and his habit though. It wasn't a bad habit or anything, but during the service, he would turn the volume up on his pocket transistor radio and listen to the sports as he was a big fan.
He didn't tune out the service or the sermon though. And he was known to be able to tell you the sermon and the score of his team if you asked. Now one day there happened to be a new pastor at his church. He didn't know of my Uncles little habit.
He gets in the pulpit and lets the service flow along smoothly untill it is time for one of the songs the choir is to sing. As they stand up to sing, my Uncle turns his radio up just slightly. The pastor seeing this, motuions for the chior to sing louder.
The chior gets louder and again my Uncle turns his little raido up. When this happens a third time, the pasor looks to him and back at the chior and replies in a very loud voice, "You'll have to sing louder folks, our brother Donald can't seem to get his hearing aid up loud enough."
Yeah that was my uncle for ya. I'm sure there was a good laugh that day, and I am sure Uncle Donald was embarresed. Still though, he kept that radio with him when he went to church or so I am told.
This one is true too, I wanted to add it after I posted this one lol
Now, I am not sure if the Donald above is the same, or if I named my Uncle wrong in that story, but this is a different Uncle here.
Now I had another Uncle. One day he dcides to do something really nice for his wife, so he sets reservations up at a very expensive resturant. My Aunt gets home and he doesn't tell her why, but he tells her to dress nicely.
My Aunt smiles and goes and changes quickly and comes back out to him wearing a tuxedo. Surprised, she asks where they are going and he tells her to wait and she will see.
They get in the car and drive for what seems like an hour and get to the resturant. The pull into the Valet parking. He hands his keys to the youn man and takes his wife's arm and leads her inside.
The place is beautiful and by now it is eas to see that this is one hard place to get into. He walks up to the reservatopn table and asks to be seated. The Matre'd looks at his paper and shakes his head, "I am sorry sir, I can not find you on my list."
Slightly aggrivated, my Uncle looks to the paper and he sees as well that his name is not there. So he asks to speak to the person that takes the calls. After a few minutes, the phone manager comes out, "Can I help you sir?" He asks.
My uncle explains what happened and as he does so, the manager's face turns a bright bright shade of red. My uncle looks over then, "Is there something wrong sir?" The manager shakes his head, "No...I just thought when you called it was a prank phone call..."
Now this is where its funny, My Uncles name is Donald.....his last name....Duck. Yes they all had a good laugh at that, and I am sure after meeting Donald Duck in the flesh, that they gae him a new reservation. I often wonder though if my Aunts name might have been Daisy?
