****New Goofiness Pick and Choose Award****

By popular demand, or at least, because Michael has repeatedly asked me if there is an award for what I did, we have a brand new and wonderful award. It is called the Goofiness award and I am creating it because I earned it after much brain freezing and cell loss as well!

It does have a few easy rules. It is also unique from other awards because you get to choose which award you like the looks of the most. It is also unique insofar as you decide whether or not you are "worthy" of this prestigious award! Is this you...the award you need to pick up?....

button #1

How about this award button...does it speak to you...something like the voices that must be speaking to the person who wrote up this ad?....

button #2

Are you keeping tabs of all your goof ups and this one is so right?....
button #3
Or, do you want something short and sweet and to the point?......
button #4
This flying duck is also so cute and says a lot without saying anything....
button #4

Finally we have the laughing dog...he has found the Goofiness award VERY entertaining....
button #5

Rules;

1. In order to claim and post one of these gems on your blog site, you need to have made some kind of blog error, either on your own posting or as a comment, such as the right comment on the wrong blog, the wrong comment on the right blog, correcting someone who is correct in the comment section of someone else's blog and making yourself look like a certifiable idiot (my claim to fame), using wrong names, creative spelling etc. etc.

2. You need to share some goof up you did to qualify for the award in blogland as well as one 'outside' goof up.

3. Share someone else's goof up that made you laugh (names can be changed to protect the guilty).

I am choosing award button #4, the flying duck just because it's so cute and yet goofy at the same time, although I think award button #2 is really great.

My qualifications for the award in blogland are probably a mile high and cover each of the examples I wrote, but my best would be the one where I corrected poor Jackie on Tamara's comment box when it was me who was totally bonkers! I did end up laughing until my stomach hurt, especially when Jackie was frantically e-mailing me to correct an error she did NOT make. See how richly I deserve this award...maybe I should take a couple of them??

As for an 'outside' goof up, there are lots of those, but one memorable one is when I worked part time, years ago at a bank in the drive through. There were three positions and three speakers to talk to individual customers. Our customers frequently brought their pets with them and I brought dog biscuits to give them. I would also talk 'puppy' dog to them and watch their little heads turn as they were trying to figure out what I was 'saying'. One of the inside tellers liked it so much that she asked me to do it again, so I proceeded to bark and howl a little and the dog in the second drive through did nothing...but boy that man in the third drive through sure looked puzzled and laughed (just glad I didn't send him the dog biscuit too)!!

Now for the other person story...we were getting ready to go on a trip and were leaving Michael's two daughters at home and in charge. We stopped at a convenience store when I remembered that we hadn't told them to water our newly planted gardenia bushes, so someone (name protection) got out his cell phone to call. He says, literally, "I'm just calling to remind you to water the booters while we're gone...no, no, I mean wash the bushes (great correcting there). I don't even remember if he ever did get it straight because I was laughing so hard by then...guess I should have checked to see if the booters were well watered or the bushes were very clean when we got back!!

Anyone out there in blogland want to be so kind as to come and claim an award here???

Now for some cute mistakes on an International level (with comments by the goofy redhead):

On a menu in Ukraine:

Unique test will be imparted by prunes (those prunes make you study really hard for their difficult 'tests'!)

Our local sports club sponsors a fishing derby each Memorial Day. However they post signs that say: NO FISHING - FISHING DERBY.
If they would have just added no public fishing today due to the fishing derby??????
Starr (Do they also have a no picnic, picnic and a no swimming, swimming pool??? Basically just don't do anything!)

Sign in London England Help yourself to a flight. (of fantasy?)

In a Greek kabab Shop Help yourself to the Waitress (No thanks, cannibalism is not my restaurant favorite .)

English translator in Kazhakistan I speaks very good england. (And you shud hear me speaks Spanach).

In an Italian cafe: Don't sit at a table without consummation. (Once you are totally consumed, any and all tables are yours...for free!)

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions. (I don't have to go to Copenhagen for that, they can, and do, do this right here in the U S of A!)

In a Bucharest hotel lobby: "The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable." (Think they should have written you will be unliftable!)

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: "Ladies may have a fit upstairs." (Men, however are restricted to having their hissy fits downstairs).

On the menu of a Polish hotel: "Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion." (THIS is scary on SO many levels...finger dumplings and those roasted ducks loose all over the restaurant...topped by beatings galore...s c a r y!!!!)

~~~Thank You dear Lord for the blessing of being able to laugh at myself and even enjoy it when others do so in a loving way.