I do have good news....

[Franklinnoble]

True story... this just happened like ten minutes ago....

Here's the backstory: About a year and a half ago, we had two cats who had a shitload of kittens. My wife was fanatical about finding all of them good homes - and two of them went to her mother. So, of all the kittens we gave away, these two we still see on a regular basis.

About fifteen minutes ago, I call my wife up from work, and I say, "Guess what?" She doesn't say "What?" Instead, she starts in about how she just got off the phone with her mother. Apparently, she was out walking her dog last night, and the cats followed her along. At some point, a car came along, and when she went to pick one of the cats up, the animal scurried out into the road and got hit by the car. They rushed it to the vet, but the internal bleeding was too severe. They had to put the cat down. Naturally, my wife is a little upset by this, and her mother is really beating herself up over it.

So, then she asks, "What did you call about?"

I respond, "Well, I do have good news. I just saved a bunch of money by switching our car insurance to Geico."

[judicial clerk]

Franklinnoble saved! I thought that ment something to Mrs. Franklinnoble.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by judicial clerk

Franklinnoble saved! I thought that ment something to Mrs. Franklinnoble.

You'd think so... but right now I think it means Franklinnoble is spending the night on the sofa...

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

You'd think so... but right now I think it means Franklinnoble is spending the night on the sofa...

pix pls, thx

[Antmeister]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

True story... this just happened like ten minutes ago....

Here's the backstory: About a year and a half ago, we had two cats who had a shitload of kittens. My wife was fanatical about finding all of them good homes - and two of them went to her mother. So, of all the kittens we gave away, these two we still see on a regular basis.

About fifteen minutes ago, I call my wife up from work, and I say, "Guess what?" She doesn't say "What?" Instead, she starts in about how she just got off the phone with her mother. Apparently, she was out walking her dog last night, and the cats followed her along. At some point, a car came along, and when she went to pick one of the cats up, the animal scurried out into the road and got hit by the car. They rushed it to the vet, but the internal bleeding was too severe. They had to put the cat down. Naturally, my wife is a little upset by this, and her mother is really beating herself up over it.

So, then she asks, "What did you call about?"

I respond, "Well, I do have good news. I just saved a bunch of money by switching our car insurance to Geico."

You are just one sick, but humorous Klingon bastard.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

pix pls, thx

"Hey, honey... I know your still mad... but can you come take a picture of me here sleeping on the sofa. Some woman online wants to see."

Yeah. That'll work. The only pix you'll have will be of the inside of my colon, 'cause that's where my digital camera will end up.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

You'd think so... but right now I think it means Franklinnoble is spending the night on the sofa...

I fail to see how this merits the sofa. Then again, I fail to see how most stuff merits retribution. Then again, I'm probably looking too far into the joke.

SI

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I fail to see how this merits the sofa. Then again, I fail to see how most stuff merits retribution. Then again, I'm probably looking too far into the joke.

SI

Well, let's just say that while I thought I had perfect comic timing, my wife didn't see the humor in making a joke at the expense of the story she had just told me about the death of a cat that she had raised from birth.

But what the hell. I couldn't pass it up. I actually just had switched to Geico, and it really did take just 15 minutes... and I really did save 15% or more... How could I NOT drop that line after she tells me that story?

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

"Hey, honey... I know your still mad... but can you come take a picture of me here sleeping on the sofa. Some woman online wants to see."

Yeah. That'll work. The only pix you'll have will be of the inside of my colon, 'cause that's where my digital camera will end up.

I heart Mrs. Noble. Your wife rocks.

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

Well, let's just say that while I thought I had perfect comic timing, my wife didn't see the humor in making a joke at the expense of the story she had just told me about the death of a cat that she had raised from birth.

But what the hell. I couldn't pass it up. I actually just had switched to Geico, and it really did take just 15 minutes... and I really did save 15% or more... How could I NOT drop that line after she tells me that story?

Saving 15% is really good news.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

I heart Mrs. Noble. Your wife rocks.

Yeah, she does. Truthfully, I'll apologize. She'll glare at me and tell me it was insensitive. I'll agree. And then she'll admit, that, yeah, it was pretty funny.

[Draft Dodger]

Franklin's going to get some makeup sex!

should I tell you what the ladies man recommends?

[SoxWin]

Cocky and Funny?

[Lathum]

Now everytime his wife hears a geico commercial, which is about 100 times a day, she'll think of that poor, dead cat.

[judicial clerk]

This story make me feel many emotions, the most prevelant being anger that I may be paying too much for my car insurance.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by judicial clerk

This story make me feel many emotions, the most prevelant being anger that I may be paying too much for my car insurance.

What got me started was a talk I had with my mom. I had mentioned something along the lines that I had been with Allstate for like 7 years now. She said that's stupid of me. She and my dad shop their car insurance every six months for the best rate. They've been with Geico about two years now, because they've been the lowest, but they still shop it twice a year.

I saved a shitload by switching over, and I'm kicking myself in the ass for not doing it sooner.

[KevinNU7]

Must be nice to live in a free market state

[lurker]

That was a great story. I don't think I'd be able to resist saying that line at that moment either. When else would you have gotten the chance to deliver it with such an effect?