Fun_People Archive
9 Apr
Ole & Lena & the Snow Emergencies

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Date: Fri,  9 Apr 99 11:52:34 -0700
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Ole and Lena are sitting down to their usual cup of morning coffee in their
little house in Ballard (part of Seattle), listening to the weather report
coming over their local NPR station.  "There will be 3 to 5 inches of snow
today and a snow emergency has been declared.   All cars must be parked on  
the even numbered sides of the streets."
    Ole gets up from his coffee and replies "Jeez, okay" and goes out to move  
their car.
    Three days later, they're both sitting down with their cups of morning
coffee and the weather forecast comes on, "There will be 2 to 4 inches of
snow today and a snow emergency has been declared.  All cars must be parked
on the even numbered sides of the streets."
    Ole gets up from his coffee and replies, "Jeez, okay" and goes out to  
move their car again.
    Five days later, again they're both sitting down with their cups of
coffee and the weather forecast comes on, "There will be 6 to 8 inches of
snow today and a snow emergency has been declared.  All cars must be parked
on the..." and then the power goes out and Ole doesn't get the rest of the
instructions.
    Ole says to Lena, "Jeez Lena, what am I going to do now?"
    Lena replies, "Aw, Ole, yust leave the car in the garage this time."

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