Beyond Intelligence

At THE STEEL DEAL: How to Make a Fence, Steel tells a very quick funny story on fence buidling that'll make you laugh. Check it out. It reminded me of a quick one of my own.

Years ago I was making some money doing home wiring on the side and was doing some phone work at the home of a Princeton University Professor. He was a great guy and I can still remember seeing pictures and plaques on the walls. I recall one pic with Nixon along with a plaque for his work with the Atomic Energy Commission.

So we're over at his phone block, which had multiple lines and so forth. I was trying to explain something to him as to how to configure his phone service. I handed him my telephone hand set to show him how to connect to a line and validate the incoming number.

So he's standing there - holding the hand set when I realize he has it upside down - the mouth piece at his ear, etc. I wasn't rude about it, we were joking, but I informed him as to why he couldn't hear anything - then I paused and said, "So, um, no offense, but they don't really let you near the atomic bombs or anything over there at the AEC, do they?

We both stood there laughing so hard we nearly had tears coming out of our eyes. He was a brilliant man, but clearly also had a great sense of humor and had been great to work for all day - same as his wife.

Anyway, check out Steel's Dad and fences today.

Comments

[Steel]

Very funny, scary, but funny.

I've heard Einstein had trouble matching his socks.

[Amy]

This is a great story. I love stories like this because it brings the average day-to-day interactions between people into the light of what humanity is all about - helping one another with what we do best and knowing that we all need each other. What a treat to read a good one. That the two of you laughed til you cried is the greatest! Thanks!

[Amy]

I love your blog! I got wild in the music section. Great stuff. The Greatest Love Song Ever Written? You made the right choice. Too bad it was the theme song for Play Misty For Me. Grisly movie. My favorite love song is By the Time I Get to Phoenix. I don't know why, but that song haunts me. I have bunches of artists singing it on various CDs. Isaac Hayes does a number on it moaning and talkin' and groanin' for eighteen minutes. Shew! Crazy Chester's pick: Why Don't We Do it In the Road? hahahaha..... funny! That Midnight Toker, Joe Walsh..... Great tune, The Joker. That's got to rank up there with songs that you can't help but sing out loud as fantasy back-up singer. Just like Bohemian Rhapsody. I just want to know what the 'pompitous of love is'?? The Tom Waits song.... very haunting and beautiful. I have a friend who just saw the Eagles. He said they were good but sounded canned. He said the best part of the show was Joe Walsh who was evidently wild as hell.

Thanks for the walk down Amnesia Lane. :)