Comedy Rain

Dear Child,

I am writing this slow because I know that you can’t read fast.

We don’t live where we did when you left home.

Your dad read in the paper that most accidents happen within 20 miles from your home so we moved.

I won’t be able to send you the address, as the last family that lived here took the house numbers when they left so that they wouldn’t have to change their address.

This place is real nice. It even has a washing machine. I’m not sure if it works too well though.

Last week I put a load in, pulled the chain, and haven’t seen them since.

The weather isn’t too bad here., it only rained twice last week, The first time it rained for three days and the second time for four days. The coat you wanted me to send you, your Uncle Steve said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with the buttons on, so we cut them off and put them in the pockets. We got another bill from the funeral home.

They said if we don’t make the last payment on Grandma’s grave, up she comes. John locked his keys in the car yesterday. We were worried because it took him two hours to get me and Shelby out.

Your sister had a baby this morning but I haven’t found out what it is yet, so I don’t know if you’re an aunt or an uncle. If the baby is a girl, your sister is going to name it after me, she’s going to call it Mom.

Uncle Pete fell in a whiskey vat last week. Some man tried to pull him out but he fought them off and drowned. We had him cremated and he burned for three days.

Three of your friends went off a bridge in a pick-up truck. Ralph was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. Your two friends were in the back. They drowned because they couldn’t get the tailgate down.

There isn’t much more news at this time. Nothing much has happened.

PS, I was going to send you some money but the envelope was already sealed.

One morning a boy got up and was leaving the house with a hand full of chicken wire.

His father said, ‘Son, where are you going?’

The son replied, ‘I’m going to catch me some chickens.’

The father said, ‘Son, you can’t catch chickens with chicken wire.’

But the son insisted that he knew what he was doing.

Later on that day, the son came home with two chickens in his hand. The father thought, ‘I guess he knows what he’s doing.’

The next morning, the son got up and was leaving the house with some duck tape.

The father said, ‘Son, where are you going?’ The son replied, ‘I’m going to catch some ducks.’

The father yelled, ‘You can’t catch ducks with duck tape!’

The son insisted that he knew what he was doing. Later on that day the son came home with two ducks under each arm.

The father thought, ‘Shoot, I guess he does know what he’s doing!’

The next morning the son got up and was leaving the house with a hand full of pussywillows. The father said, ‘Hold up, son, let me put on my shoes!’