Whenever I go out my back door I get tormented by one of those big black bumble bees wearing a yellow vest around its back.

He is always out there, must have a nest in the vicinity. Yesterday I grabbed a can of wasp spray before I went out, but there was only a drop left in it.

As soon as he saw me he attacked. I shot what was left in the can, but missed. He retreated but knew I was out of ammo and came swooping back down at me. I swung the empty can like a baseball bat and made contact. He hit the wall hard, sounded like a rock.

He was on the ground, dazed, but before I could stomp on him he came to and flew towards me. I quickly ran into the house and watched him flying into the glass of the storm door.

He was pizzed, just kept bashing into the glass. Finally he mumbled something, probably, "I'll get you tomorrow you *******." and flew away.

FINN'S DUMPSTER FINDS


I was once a dumpster rat. Before stores had compacters they had very profitable dumpsters until they got tired of picking up all the trash thrown out by slobs that didn't know how to pick.
I then switched to warehouse and construction dumpsters. My picking hours were when it got dark or on Sunday mornings. I had about 20 favorite dumpsters that I would always visit and seldom came home empty handed.

One dumpster was at this place that cleaned out houses after they flooded or had a fire. One thing I found in there was a heavy box filled with sports cards. Some of the good ones were a Joe Montana rookie, Mike Schmidt rookie, Rickey Henderson rookie and a lot of others.
Another place used to throw out tools. I got quite a few from them. Old wrenches, power drills, a pair of bolt cutters from the 1890s and a band saw that was so heavy I had a Hell of a time getting it out of the dumpster.
I would hang on to anything I found that was old. I had a 1904 typewriter, electric fans from the 1930s-50s, old toys from the 1920s-1960s.

When people I knew started seeing all this stuff in my basement they wanted me to take them with me the next time I went out.
I wouldn't take them to my favorite dumpsters but they still found a lot of good stuff.
One of my friends found some old comic books from the 1930s. They were small and looked more like fat paperbacks. He sold them to some collector for $200.
Another time my nephew found a bunch of hunting equipment in a dumpster. A compound bow and about 30 broad head arrows, a box of .30 .30 ammunition, binoculars plus some other stuff.

I still have some of the stuff I found but got rid of most of it because I'm not really a hoarder and I like a lot of free space in my house.

FINN'S REVENGE


When I was in junior high this kid hit me in the eye with a green pinecone, my eye was swollen for a week.
Even though he was in the same grade as I was he was twice the size and a couple years older than me, no telling how many times he flunked. So fighting him was out of the question.

He had these new Puma shoes that just came out that he was always cleaning off the dirt and showing them off. He thought he was the cat's meow with them.
One day I bought a Bub's Daddy sour apple gum stick, they were as big as a pretzel rod, and headed to the bowling alley to watch people bowl.

As I was sitting at the upper level chewing on that big wad of gum I noticed that kid was bowling with his team, I didn't know he was on a league.
I spotted all their shoes, including his, behind their chairs near the bowling ball rack in the back. They had just finished their 2nd game and headed to the snack bar. An idea suddenly popped into my head and I scurried down to where their shoes were.

I grabbed one of his Puma shoes and took the wad of gum out of my mouth, rolled it around in my fingers till it got sticky, and shoved it all the way up inside the shoe.

I quickly went back to the upper level and waited for them to return to bowl their last game. I decided to get a soda while I watched.

They eventually finished bowling and began changing their shoes. I kept my eye on the Puma kid as he got one shoe on and laced it. He then tried shoving his fat foot into the gum shoe but couldn't get it in all the way.

I heard him say " what the hell? "
As he pulled his foot back out to try again, his sock came off and stuck in his shoe. He then yanked his sock out which was still stuck to the gum, and his shoe was dangling on a green string of gum,like a bungee cord.

He was mad. " Who stuck gum in my shoe ? " He hollered.
I started laughing and choked on my soda. I bet he had a hard time getting all that gum out.

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