The Barn by Ralph Hagen for April 13, 2024

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    Yakety Sax  about 1 month ago

    From Not Always Right : This Whole Story Is Garbage

    Our office has a cleaner who comes in twice a week to clean up, empty the bins, and so on. She was on holiday, so as my bin was now full, I decided to empty mine and my colleagues’ bins. I collected a couple of large bags and got to work.

    When I reached the Quality Manager, he gave me a smile and commented:

    Quality Manager: “[My Name], you’re rubbish at this job.”

    Me: Light-heartedly “Oh, ha, ha, ha.”

    Admin Assistant: “Yeah, [My Name], where you bin?”

    This got a little cheer from across the room, as she is usually the loudest one for groans and other exasperated noises whenever a pun war starts.

    Admin Assistant: “I got one in! I’ve never done that before, but I got one in!”

    Me: “I always knew she’d join in if we would litter.”

    Design Engineer: “This is a waste of [My Name]’s skills.”

    Quality Manager: “Did you get training for this, [My Name], or did you just pick it up as you went along?”

    Technical Manager: “He read the manual litter by litter.”

    Design Engineer: “If he doesn’t watch out, he’ll get the sack!”

    Admin Assistant: “How do you all do it? I can’t think of any more puns!”

    Quality Manager: “I’m surprised [My Name] hasn’t joined in.”

    Me: “Hey! I did one earlier; you didn’t hear it.” In an obviously fake indignant voice “I think I’ve had enough of this trash talk!”

    And as I had now finished the collection, I left the room with two very full bags to the sounds of a lot of groans. Sweet…

    (NOT my story, but groan at will)

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    GROG Premium Member about 1 month ago

    There is life out there – but intelligent? That’s debatable.

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    cdward  about 1 month ago

    Which just goes to show, intelligence and morality (or just plain politeness) are not necessarily connected.

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    Doug Taylor Premium Member about 1 month ago

    They’re just returning the garbage we left on the Moon and Mars and Venus and Titan and a couple of asteroids.

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    Frank Burns Eats Worms  about 1 month ago

    ♪ Looook heeeere brother…who you jivin’ with that cosmik debris ♪

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    ladykat  about 1 month ago

    Take your garbage home with you!

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    Mike Baldwin creator about 1 month ago

    And they speak our language!

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    the lost wizard  about 1 month ago

    Organics. :)

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    Impkins  Premium Member about 1 month ago

    What happened to “Pack Out Your Trash?” :)

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    wconer  about 1 month ago

    we are ALONE in the Universe !!

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    Shikamoo Premium Member about 1 month ago

    They are just returning our trash.

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