Today’s funny from DAVID

I have no idea what reminded me of this, but a funny thing happened 25 years ago at the mall and I thought of it today.

My friends and I were in my pea-green 1977 Volkswagon Beetle and two of us had to go into the mall for some reason, but Chris McDowell stayed behind. We had been playing basketball or softball or something and Chris was too sweaty to go into the mall (he was VERY conscious of how he looked and smelled, unlike me then OR now).

Scott and I went in, and had been in there for a few minutes when Chris walked up. Apparently he had fallen asleep in the bug and was awakened to a burning sensation on his behind. First of all, the battery in a VW bug (back then) was under the back seat. I had to work on it at some point and had not replaced the guard over the positive terminal properly. Chris sat there, shifted the wrong way, and the back seat shorted across the battery to give him a HOT BUTT. (Sorry, but it really was like a hot foot, but . . . you know) He said it burned his butt . . . I took his word for it.

We got back to the car and a little hole was burned in my upholstery. But, don’t fret . . . The VW cranked up like a champ! Didn’t hurt the battery, just Chris. And the car smelled a little unusual for a couple of days . . .