My Encounter With a Couple From Iowa

Here is an amusing experience that I had that I recently shared with a relative through a "snail mail" that I thought some of you might enjoy----as I certainly enjoy telling it:

About 12 years ago or so, I went to a gas station here in Hannibal on Highway 61 to fill up my car with gas. And on the other side of my pump was a small SUV with Iowa plates owned by a white couple in their late 20s or early 30s and the man was a muscular guy with a shaven head who had a navy blue handherchief wrapped around his bald head with that little flowers pattern -- for some reason, this guy really irritated me.

Then his wife comes around behind their vehicle with her foot all wrapped up in a bandage and wearing a walking cast on that foot. I told her, "Oh, I wore one of those a few years ago when I had surgery to remove an enlarged nerve from the top of my foot," and I took my shoe off to show her my incision mark.

With her husband looking on, this woman exclaimed, "Oh, that's the same surgery that I had!"

I then added a little levity by telling her, "Now, whether your husband can handle it when you take the bandage off, I don't know."

I did get serious with her by telling her, "Now, when your doctor gives you the 'okay' to wear a regular shoe, be sure to baby your foot for a while because I didn't and I did too much, too soon and I suffered immensely."

I then told her husband, "Now, whether or not your marriage will be able to handle it after she takes her bandage off, it just depends on how strong your marriage was before the surgery."

With this man and his wife looking down at her foot in a walking cast, after a few seconds, this man told his wife, "Well, you might as well head on down the road without me, then." And his wife and I roared out laughing!!