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When Gina lost her job, her friend Kiki suggested pole dancing. Gina was puzzled; dance with a Polish man up here? Too crowded . . . and was it to be ballet? Ball room dancing? An Irish jig? Clogging or tap dancing? Would she have to take lessons first . . . ?
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When the Washington bureaucrats said they wanted to cut farm subsidies, saying there wasn't a grain of truth in the farmers pleas, the farm lobby suggested the politicians price new tractors and combines . . .
Flood Insurance
As the tropical depression turned into a tropical storm and perhaps later a hurricane, LaVerne (pictured) was trying to remember if she had paid her flood insurance premium. After the trouble she had collecting last year, she wasn’t sure she cared; it took a law suit filed in Judge Judy’s court to finally get the company to pay . . .
She Works Hard for Her Money
Lola took the job as border patrol spotter; the pay was good, the benefits better, but even with good thermal updrafts to ride, 8 hours flying was hard work . . .
Fired
Lenny (not pictured) called his wife Lucy (also not pictured), who everybody agreed was the brains of the outfit, to ask if she had any ideas on getting some FEMA money to start a business. The last of the debris from his Hurricane Harvey job had been collected, and as he told it, both the debris and he had been fired . . .
Business Off
The storks were in a quandary; delivering babies as a business model was on the decline. FedEx, UPS and the new Postal Service plan just made it too hard to compete financially. Maybe a contract with UNICEF could pull them through . . .