Urban Sasquatch

One day a worker was leaving his office building and hailed a taxi. Just as the taxi pulled up and the man opened the door the skies opened in a huge downpour of drenching rain.

Leaping into the taxi just before the rain struck, the man said excitedly "Whew, that was lucky!"

"Yep," said the cabby, "That's the sort of thing that would have happened to Sheldon."

"I beg your pardon?" the passenger said.

"Sheldon Berenstein," the cabby responded. "The thing that just happened to you, missing that storm -- that sort of thing happened to Sheldon all the time. Sheldon led a charmed life and was the greatest man who ever lived."

The passenger looked dubiously at the driver, saying "Nobody's life if perfect, bad things happen all the time."

"Oh, no," said the cabby, "Not to Sheldon."

"How is that possible?"

The driver explained "Sheldon was the sort of guy who things always went right for. Sheldon wasn't some stupid cab-driver like me, he had a great job and made plenty of money."

He went on: "Sheldon not only made lots more money than me, he really had class! I'm just some dumb schmuck, but Sheldon -- he took his family places, lots of fancy places. And Sheldon knew things, you know? Sheldon knew which fork to use with which meal, Sheldon knew about fancy wines -- me, I'm a clumsy slob and I don't know a bottle of cheap wine from a glass of mud -- but not Sheldon!"

"Sounds like quite a man," the passenger said.

"Oh, you don't know the half of it! A guy like me, hey, I'm as ugly as a mud fence; but Sheldon, he had a body like Schwarzeneggar, a face like Rock Hudson and he could dance like Fred Astaire. I can barely put one foot in front of the other, mind you, but Sheldon -- he was suave and debonaire, that's for sure."

"That does sound like a charmed life!"

"It sure was. Sheldon was smart, too, not a big dummy like me. Sheldon could just fix things that were broken, made repairs around the house like it was nobody's business. Me, I don't even know which end of a wrench to hold, but Sheldon -- he could just look at something and it would practically fix itself. Sheldon was a lover, a fighter, a genius -- everything a woman could ever dream of!"

"Wow," exclaimed the passenger, "I can see why you'd always remember a guy like that!"

The cabby glanced in the mirror and said "Oh, I never really knew Sheldon."

Puzzled, the passenger asked "Then how do you know so much about him?"

"After he died I married his wife."

snoopy

AHAHAHAHAHAHH!!! ihihihihihih!!! UHUHUHUH!
This is veeeeery nice!!!!!! Everyone of us are a nothing compared to "Sheldon"! And our wifes knows it

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Cloelia

I'm joining you in your laughter, Snoopy. Good story and such a surprising ending! Unfortunately there are women like that.

snoopy

A good laugh, ever helps Cloelia! Unfortunately yes, they exists. People so cruel that helps you to remind how unable you are on everything you do. horrible.

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