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Birthday Chainsaw

March 28, 2022 7 Comments

By Alan J Wahnefried

On my wife’s birthday, we attended a farm auction. Farm auctions lack published orders of sale; things just appear on the auction block. My wife and I split up. When a chainsaw appeared, I bought it for $25. Later, my wife came up behind me with an evil smile on her face.

“I saw what you did!” she accused in jest.

I held out the saw and said, “Happy birthday, honey.”

A guy standing next to me stifled a laugh into a snort and ran, expecting my wife to explode.

We both laughed. We’d been looking for a chainsaw for months.

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  1. Rosemarie Schaut says

    March 28, 2022 at 9:04 am

    You ‘split up’. . . Lol.

    Reply
    • Alan J Wahnefried says

      March 28, 2022 at 10:52 am

      there were multiple auctioneers working at the same time. We covered different kinds of merchandise

      Reply
  2. Helen C says

    March 28, 2022 at 9:52 am

    Great story and not nearly as dark as I expected.

    Reply
    • Alan J Wahnefried says

      March 28, 2022 at 10:53 am

      glad you liked it.

      Reply
  3. Andy Hedgecock says

    March 29, 2022 at 11:13 am

    Neat change of direction!

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  4. Andrea Damic says

    March 30, 2022 at 6:22 am

    Nice and humorous ?

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  5. Jo says

    March 30, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    HA! Something similar happened when my DH gave me a reciprocating saw for my birthday… his friends were all “YOU DID WHAT?”, but he said “It’s what she asked for!” ROFLOL…

    Reply

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