Writer's Block: Folktales of the City

[mercyb]

Well, I must say I was jazzed to find this on my friends page on Friday. annamaryse  had answered it first thing in the morning and I squealed with delight to see the Writer's Block editors had selected my suggestion. I'd only submitted it this week and thought it'd never get picked.

Of course, I read almost every public write up and was shocked to see that

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[f1ymetothemoon]

I was duped by the headlight thing too! Vin was duped by the email that goes around informing everyone Venus (or Mars?) is about to pass so close to the earth that it will look as large as our moon... hahaha!

I didn't reply to your Writer's Block because I'm just not sure what my favorite is. Though I always crack up at the one where the woman whose dog is licking peanut butter off her you-know-what gets a surprise party... ack! I'm going to have to think more about this and make my official reply :)

[mercyb]

Hahahaha!!!! I'm laughing! I totally forgot about the birthday girl coming upstairs with ar jar of peanut butter in hand. Hahahaha! Woo, so funny.

That reminds of one from Australia (or this version I read did), where a woman was dashing off to work and realized last minute that she had a physical scheduled that day. Having not showered that morning and a little anxious about the upcoming pap smear, she grabbed a washcloth on the bathroom counter, did a little scrub and left for work. During her vag exam, the doctor had her put feet up in stirrups and declared rather nonchalantly, "oooh, fancy." He finished the exam and sent her off. When she got home, her daughter said, "Mom, have you seen my art project? I left it in the bathroom." Turns out the woman had decorated herself with glitter and confetti before leaving the house that morning.

Not a dramatic story but a funny one. And ridiculous. How did she not itch from glitter and confetti in her hoo hoo! Hahhaa

[f1ymetothemoon]

I am SO glittering my hoo hoo before my next exam!

I remember something about a girl who dyed her pubes green and got a tattoo saying "keep off the grass". Before a surgery in that area the doc needed to shave her a bit, so left a note saying "sorry, but I had to mow the lawn"... hahaha!

[mercyb]

Oh, no he didn't! That's a good one!

[f1ymetothemoon]

I decided! And posted! The Ghost Tracks of San Antonio.

[mercyb]

Oh! Oh! That's a good one! I'd never heard/read that one before. I was expecting a trail of children's footprints in the dirt, so handprints on the car was a nice surprise. :D

[f1ymetothemoon]

I wish I'd have looked for those tracks when I was passing through San Antonio a couple of years ago!

[mercyb]

Totally up your alley.

(And you could have looked for the basement in the Alamo, too. LOL!)

[lu_shines]

I LOVED THAT, I've enjoyed reading the few that I've seen floating around. I wanted to reply with my family urban legend about "The pancake family...that would be George Washington, and his sister, Ima, and brother, Ura" My Dad said he went to school with one of them but I think he was totally pulling my leg.

[mercyb]

Dads are good at telling these urban legends from back in their day. There are lots of Imas and Uras out there, according to the bazillion name legends my dad and uncles have told me. :)

Here's one from my childhood neighborhood. And true! :) My brother and I went to elementary school with the Wacker kids, Tina and Brent Wacker (you can look 'em up in our yearbooks). Not so bad for names...however their father was Brent and my brother's Cub Scout leader. His name was Dick Wacker. !! I'm not kidding. My question is, why wouldn't you just go by Rich or Richard??! LOL)

[write8dine]

I don't have anything hilarious or scary to share but there is one bit I can share: one of Frederick Forsythe's short story collections, about a young woman who was driving home late one night and was chased by another mysterious car, that kept flashing its headlights..so, it turned out that the mysterious driver was trying to save the woman from being stabbed in the back by the intruder, who was hiding in the backseat at the time of the car chase. The funny thing about this story was I heard it before I read the story and it was a ghost involving the same scene- instead of an intruder trying to stab the driver, it was a ghost trying to strangle the driver; the driver was kept safe by the constant headlights flashing from the pursuer... The first time I heard about it I thought it was either a real ghost story or a hoax; well, now, I don't know if it was 'ripped' off from FF's stories.