Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Chew Chew Train, Part Two

Once before I wrote about being on a train and it was not a very great experience. In fact I would feel comfortable saying it was the opposite of great which is shitty. However, while on vacation I traveled by train from San Francisco all the way to Portland, Oregon. It was scheduled to be a 17 hour train ride which blossomed into a 25 hour train ride. It wasn't so bad because I had a first class ticket (I'm fancy) and my own private sleeping quarters. Meals were also included and they were served on real plates with real silverware and served by a real honest to goodness waitress that stepped right out of a television sitcom. You know of my love for Flo, Alice and Shirley and this waitress was like all three of them rolled into one snarky wise ass waitress. I never got her name, so I shall refer to her as Pearl.

Pearl was one of those waitresses who always has a quick comeback whenever you ask for anything and if she didn't say it with a smile and a wink you would just think she was a total bitch. I wanted to know what it was like to wait tables on a train and live in the same place that you work for days at a time. She told us that her days were 18 hours long and she worked three days in a row and then had six days off. As if waiting tables isn't hard enough, Pearl has to do it 18 hours at a time and on a train that sways back and forth as it rolls across the country. She was my new hero. I asked her how she managed to deal with such a crazy kind of job. Her answer: drugs. I just fell in love with her a little bit more. I think she meant something like Ambien or Prozac, but in my mind I imagined good ol' Pearl curled up in her sleeping quarters while sucking on a crackpipe and free basing some crystal meth before her breakfast shift.

By the end of my breakfast, she told me that her drugs had kicked in and she had a joke for me. "What do you call a cow eating grass?" she asked. In my world that would just be a hamburger, but she told me the answer was a "lawn mooer!" And then she busted out laughing like it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. Hmm, maybe she really was on crack. Her joke led to a whole smorgasbord of bad jokes from every other table in the dining car. And here they are:

Q: What do you call a group of rabbits walking backwards?
A: A receding hare line!

Q: What do you call a monkey with a time bomb?
A: A baboom!

Q: What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?
A: Dam!

Q: Why was six afraid of seven?
A: Because seven ate nine!

Thank you, folks. I'm here all week. Try the veal.

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16 comments:

Alexa O said...

"What did the hot dog say when he crossed the finish line first?"

"I'm a weiner!"

Joe Smith said...

What do you call a sleeping cow?

A bulldozer.

Bill said...

Whats the favorite letter for pirates?

RRRR

Anonymous said...

What's the smallest room in the world?

"Mushroom".

lolamouse said...

"What do you call a deer with no eyes?"

"No eye deer!"

"What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?"

"Still no eye deer!"

Mary A. said...

Q - Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

A - It was dead!

Terra said...

what's a cat's favorite book?
a tail of two kitties

Anonymous said...

what's brown and sticky?

A stick!

har de har har

Unknown said...

What do you do with a dog that has no legs?

take him for a drag

Soumyaranjan Dash said...

While reading your train-post, I remembered one incident of my life. A beggar once asked me while I was traveling on train one day: "Sir, can you tell me 100 words within 5 minutes those don't have an 'a'?" I became tensed. I couldn't tell the answer. The answer is: one to hundred!

Nikki said...

Why do seagulls fly by the sea?

Because if they flew by the bay they'd be baygulls.

Keda said...

ROFL - the fishy one is the best!

what's brown and sticky?

... a stick.

yeah.

Keda said...

see sarah beat me to the stick joke though. oh well, there are only so many good ones to go around.

lj said...

hahaha! i knew a pearl like that. the drug thing too. lol.
good grief

Frank the Angry Lobster said...

Here's a lame anatomy joke I came up with in college:

Me: I have oil on my skin.
Friend: Why?
Me: I can't tell you.
Friend: Why not?
Me:...It's a secrete.

Frenzyful said...

What is green and has wheels?

Grass. I lied about the wheels.