That’s a “joke” a co-worker used to love… when you ask “what”, he’d reply “Nothin’s funnier than kickin’ a midget!” and then he’d start laughing, haha. Totally random.
When I was a missionary in Korea, I remember one day the two other elders that shared the house with me and my companion came home with a bit of a disagreement, heh. Elder Bird, the junior companion, was upset that Elder Schmidt wouldn’t proselyte to a midget they saw that day, hahaha. I don’t remember what Schmidy’s issue was, midgets freaked him out or something (or at least made him uncomfortable somehow. Schmidy if you still read this blog you can feel free to clarify 😉 ).
Well, this is the midget of cars and it kinda freaks me out. No, not sitting there it doesn’t freak me out. But on the freeway… they creep up out of nowhere and suddenly they’re riding your tail. And then they try to PASS you. It’s crazy to see a car that size even driving the speed limit on the freeway, isn’t it only legal on golf courses? Like someone’s remote control car got loose onto the freeway, it could be crushed at any moment by normal sized cars. Maybe these are normal in other parts of the world, but in the U.S…. you might be a wierdie if you’re driving one of these.
I dunno… my experience has just been that the drivers are disproportionately aggressive relative to the size of their car. Anyways, of course I can never capture a picture when I’m driving. But today I pulled into the parking lot at school and left a spot next to me on driver’s side, and this little thing just zips into the spot next to me a moment later. I just started laughing. Then I pulled out my camera and took a couple pictures after the driver had left, and then I laughed some more. Look how tiny it is! Look at that car pretending like it belongs in that big parking spot! I had no idea we had hobbits living in Utah.
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6 responses to “What’s funnier than kickin’ a midget?”
I used to start my debate class with asking my students to tell a joke (to start things out on a fun note and practice a bit of public speaking) the midget joke came up several times, except the punchline became “Kicking several midgets!” The first time I heard it I wasn’t sure how to react; how un-P.C., holy crap! But eventually it cracked me up. (Much like the Helen Keller jokes, haha. “Did you hear about the new Helen Keller doll? You wind it up and it walks into a wall.” “Why did Helen Keller’s dog run away? You would too if your name were Auaaeeauauuauaa [mumbled vowels]”)
Just over ten years ago I really wanted a Smart Car; they were all over Germany when I was there in early 1999. The very first one I saw was white with pink and purple polka-dots. It looked ridiculous near other cars, I thought there was no way it could be a real car.
When they finally made their way into the U.S. I was driving my VW Beetle already and realized that if I constantly felt like I could be squished by larger cars in George, the feeling could only be stronger in a Smart Car.
When Jesse and I went to Europe for the first time together, we spent hours and hours on the road, and instead of playing “slug bug” we played “stupid car.” Then we got to punch each other any time we saw a Smart Car, or, as we liked to call them, Stupid Car. 🙂
we saw one today. I was thinking, man you’d be flattened like a pancake if a truck hit you… Not so smart then.
I mean you know what’s lame? These things cost as much as REGULAR cars. Excuse me, if I wanted to flush $10k down the toilet I could think of lots more enjoyable ways to do it.
A Smart Car totally ran a stop sign and cut me off the other day. Had to slam on my brakes in the middle of the intersection. I laid on the horn and guy just grinned at me. Then the next day, I see the same car parked at the Institute building… with no permit. Yeah. I turned him in.
I hear that people with “eco-friendly” cars (smart car, prius, etc) can be pretty smug and self-righteous. I wonder if they realize that doesn’t help their cause, haha.
So kind of you to slam on the breaks. You probably woulda pancaked that car, and I would have given you a standing ovation.