Wednesday Story for the Day

[Mike]

A man was walking home alone late one foggy night, when he hears:
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>BUMP... behind him.
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>Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image
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>an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward
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>Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing
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>faster...
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>faster...
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>He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes
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>However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket
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>clapping
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>clappity-BUMP...
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>clappity-BUMP...
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>on his heels the terrified man runs.
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>Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, the man locks himself in. His heart is
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>With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.
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>Bumping and clapping toward him.
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>The man screams and reaches for something, anything,
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>but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup!
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>Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket...
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>(hopefully you're ready for this!!!)
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>The coffin stops!

[Jenny G]

What?!?!  I had worked myself into some sort of frenzy and was ready for a really scary punch line! Thanks a lot!

[Roberta]

good one mike I think this will be safe for Dee Dee.
Roberta