ship-jumper's Diaryland Diary
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Gomer and Doofus no more!
We've all done it before. Some have done it more often than others. Some do it once in a blue moon. Others seem to do it weekly. None of us are immune. Those stupid and idiotic things that we'd like to slap ourselves for doing after the deed is done.
We refer to them as "bonehead" moves; incidents that occur when we clearly weren't thinking or paying attention. These are times of embarrassment often accompanied with pain or injury. Stunts or 'accidents' such as these we usually try to explain away with a plethora of excuses so as to insinuate that it would happen to anybody given the same set of circumstances. Of course we all know this isn't really true. We were just being a "bonehead" or a "Gomer".
Well I'd like to create a new name for these misadventures. And not to poke fun of, but rather pay tribute to her, I've concluded that a certain someones name should instead be attached to these maneuvers that we find ourselves being made victim to. I think many of you are smelling a hint of the person I am referring to. After all she, by her own MANY admissions, has done incredible bonehead moves or Gomers. She's broken her ankle whilst getting out of her car. She's, she's, well you all know the messes she's experienced as you've read her blog. The wonderful, adored and loveable poolagirl. Poolie just seems to attract weird events and weird happenings that make you wonder what in the world was really going on at the time.
So instead of saying "You would not believe the Gomer I pulled today!" Or "I did SUCH a doofus thing today!". Instead, we can just preface our stories by saying "I pulled a major Poolie today!" and everyone will know without a doubt that something silly, hysterical, off the wall and odd is about to be shared. As I said, this is not to poke fun of dear Poolie but rather a way of giving honor and credit where credit is due! With all of the off the wall experiences she has had, she should in a sense have a legacy and I guess this is my wee little suggestion to ensure a long living legacy. Perhaps Wikipedia will let me create a new phrase and it will be etched in cyberspace forever?
So given all of that, I have to share what my poor honey did the other night. She definitely Pulled a Poolie and I am so glad one of our friends was present to witness it and share in the laughter with me!
We were standing out on the balcony the other night when Kels noticed someone appeared to be hanging out in the Gazebo below us. In fact, she thought there may have been something 'hinky' going on so we all shamelessly hushed ourselves trying to see if we could hear or see anything. Not an easy task mind you, as I've said before we are 12 stories up. Also it was some time around 10:30 PM so it was dark which made our peeping attempts that much more difficult.
Kels got a great idea. "Oh man! I'm going to run in and get the binoculars!" OK then! So she raced inside the apartment....or I should say she tried to run into the apartment. In a split second I heard a major thud, turned towards the door and saw Kels crouched over backing up to a chair on the balcony at a rather rapid pace. I had no clue what had happened, until of course I saw this:
Yep. She pulled a MAJOR Poolie!! She clearly did not know the screen door was closed and she tried to run right through it! Now, the photo does no justice to the amount of damage done to the screen, and I swear we did not alter it in any way. She darn near went right THROUGH the damn thing! You can see where her hand made a hole, where her right foot made a hole and where her knee and leg plowed through the screen. I wasn't able to show the small hole where her face actually went through.
She was unscathed, but holy shitinannnie were we howling with laughter! I have witnessed my dog boink off the screen door before. I have seen videos of people walking into plate glass windows. I have NEVER seen someone walk through a screen door before. She definitely gets an award for Pulling a Poolie, no??
We were laughing so damn hard I seriously almost peed myself. I finally had to sit down just to squeeze everything nice and tight and closed! And needless to say, the amount of noise we were creating caused the people we were trying to spy on come out of the Gazebo and stare up at US to see what the hell was going on. Sigh.
So there ya have it. I invite you all to pay tribute to the great Cap'n Poolie and share stories of when YOU have "Pulled a Poolie!!"
3:08 p.m. - 2008-05-28
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