Dumb Acts People Admit–Mystery Question

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some.Dumb Actions People Admit; Micah 6:8

Dumb Acts People Admit is this week’s Mystery Question. I am really having fun with this one and I hope you get a laugh or two. Oh, and it took me a day and a half to come up with my false statement.

But first the photo and Scripture verse. I walked down Memory Lane with this photo taken at Seward Park in Seattle. It was 2009 or 2010, and I was researching the area for my first book that was published and attending a conference at Seattle Pacific University. Shadows of the Past started out around Seattle and quickly moved to a little town in Mississippi.

All that to say how I found myself at Seward Park in Seattle. Well, actually, I found myself there because I’d met a lady online who lived in Seattle and offered to give me a tour. She was attending the same conference. It was such a beautiful place. And, the verse has long been a favorite. Such simple instructions from the Lord.

Now for last week’s Mystery Question: Crazy Things People Do.  I thought these would give everyone a chuckle. As usual, three are true and one is made up. Can you guess which one?

  1. One person reported a classmate insisted that Italian wasn’t a real language because she was Italian and she spoke English. Her history teacher barely contained herself until she left the room.

  2. A guy was shooting his new semi-automatic for the first time. After the first few rounds, there were no holes in the paper so he assumed the gun was malfunctioning. To check, he aimed it at the palm of his other hand, fired, and found his answer.

  3. A man was so proud of his new false teeth that he boasted they were better than his natural teeth and to prove it, he would pull his car down his driveway with his teeth. He moved the car…and visited the dentist the next day to get his teeth repaired.

  4. The boy bought a Coke that had prizes under the cap. His father watched as he twisted the cap off and looked at it. It read: “Sorry. Try again.” So the boy put the cap back on, took it off, and looked at it again.

And the answer is the ever-popular #3.

And, I have a confession to make. The idea came from something that happened in my husband’s family back in the 30’s or 40’s. One of his uncles had gotten false teeth and it was Sunday afternoon at a potluck lunch. The men had gathered down by the creek and the uncle was bragging about his teeth, saying they were better than his original ones. Someone challenged his statement and to prove it, he said to throw a rope over a branch and he would hold onto the rope with his teeth while the men lifted him up. Sadly that was the end of his new teeth…and he didn’t have the money for many years to get new ones…

Now for this week’s Mystery Question: Dumb Acts People Admit.  I hope these give everyone a chuckle. As usual, three are true and one is made up. Can you guess which one?
    1. A husband and wife spent an hour looking for the husband’s glasses. They finally found hers on the bed. And why couldn’t they find his? She had them on.
    2. A woman decided to let her hair go gray. She reported to her friends that she was tired of fooling with it and shaved her head. It was the second time in her life that she’d done that. The first time she’d gotten a permanent that she didn’t like.
    3. One person turned this one in: “I worked at a craft store, and every night damaged items were placed in the Damaged Bin. On this particular night, the manager dug through it and pulled out a wooden ‘E.’ ‘Who put this in here?’ She asked. ‘I did,” I replied. ‘It’s supposed to be an E, but it’s missing one of the prongs.” The manager then informed me that it was, in fact, a wooden ‘F.'”
    4. “I took the bus home, and it was a 45-minute ride. When I got home, I thought someone stole my car  until I realized I had, in fact, driven to work. The sad thing is that I’ve done this more than once.”

Okay, Super Sleuths, which one did I make up? Leave your answer in the comments and I’ll enter you in a May drawing for a book from my library!

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  1. Andre

    These made me laugh but are all so believable! I could see all happening! It reminds me of when I got in the wrong car in the parking lot! I couldn’t figure out why it was unlocked and what some of the things were. It didn’t take long for it to hit me, I’ve never gotten out of a car so fast! Lol

    I think I’ll go with #2. #3 sounds like a dumb blond joke lol.

    Thanks for doing these. They make me smile and think!

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    1. Andrea

      Bahaha I got in a hurry and forgot my A! Last days of school! I think I’m barely holding it together! Lol

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  3. Delores Topliff

    I think you made up #1 or #4 but I’ll go w/ #4. Years ago a dam broke in the Pacific NWest which flooded our community. People scrambled to rescue belongings. A friend rowed a boat into his home and saw catfish jumping over his inundated stove. He couldn’t find his false teeth anywhere. He finally gave up and sat down on higher ground and that’s when he found them. They were in a back pocket of his overalls and bit him!

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  4. Priscilla Bettis

    I’ve been to Seward Park. It was years ago, but I still remember how beautiful it was. As for this week’s mystery question, they’re all so plausible, hard to choose! I’ll go with number 3 because I think you’d be able to tell if an E were broken to make an F.

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  5. Tim Johnson

    Pat, your beautiful photo perfectly illustrated a devotion I read this morning. It’s point was that with the beauty God has shown us on earth, we must declare how beautiful heaven must be. By the way, “Shadows of the Past” was the first book of yours I read. I quickly caught up with the others you had written by then. Looking forward to “Deception”!

    These are tough ones (again). I think you made up #2. Shaving her head seems pretty extreme. Why not just dye her hair if she didn’t it gray? Besides, I think gray hair is beautiful. My mom’s hair turned gray earlier than most, and she always got compliments for it.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Hi Tim. As long as there are beauty shops, I won’t be turning gray. lol. Now if my hair turned like a friend of mine–a pretty shade of black and gray, I might reconsider…but it’s been so long, I have no idea how much gray I have. 😉 We’ll see next week if it’s #2.

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  6. Barbara Diggs

    Hard to know where to start. Between the breathtaking photo, (I did gasp) the profound Scripture and the hearty chuckles on each scenario, I feel like I’ve got chipmunk cheeks. What a delightful way to enjoy the morning.

    I absolutely loved the one about the glasses! I can picture that happening.
    It’s hard, but going with # 3

    Blessings!

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  8. Gail Hollingsworth

    I’m going with #1. Unless their prescriptions were the same they would realize they had on the wrong glasses. I’ve also known many women who shave their heads to let their hair go naturally gray.

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  9. Paula Shreckhise

    All these seem plausible! I’ll go with the letter F mistaken for an E.
    Brings back memories of working at Walgreens and scanning returned and damaged items. Inventory had to line up!

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      Patricia Bradley

      Hi Paula. Oh, the days of working in retail. I’ve always said that everyone should experience owning a rent house and working with the public at least one time in their lives. We’ll see if it’s #3 next week.

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  10. Gloria A

    I am guessing #1. It seems like it would be hard to mistake someone else’s glasses for your own.

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  11. Ellen Gray

    Well these all sound like something that would happen. There is actually a newspaper article about a pastor at our church in the late 1800’s who rode the interurban home, forgetting his horse at the stable. So, it is believable. I think I will go with #3 for the second week in a row.

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  13. Trixi

    I want to say #2 is your false one this week because I can see where a woman would be tired of coloring her hair (or whatever other reason) and let it go naturally gray. But I can’t see her deliberately shaving it off. Most women give stock to beautiful hair (long or short) and I just can’t see a woman doing this. I’ve known women who have gotten cancer & shaved it off because they knew they would lose their hair so that’s more reasonable in my mind.

    As for the picture, so pretty! Seattle area is beautiful in my humble opinion, though I’ve never been to Seward park. That may have to be a destination my husband & I take someday since we live on the Oregon coast. It wouldn’t be that big of a drive 🙂

    Funny story about your uncle! It made me laugh.

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  20. Edward Arrington

    Beautiful picture, great verse!

    I think #1 is made up. It seems the most believable. The others seem wacky enough that they probably happened. I had an aunt who frequently lost things. She lost her glasses one day while gardening. I found them in the fork of a tree at eye-level. If the wife was wearing her husband’s glasses, one of them should have realized it before finding the wife’s glasses on the bed. I would notice if my wife was wearing my glasses and I’m fairly sure she would realize they were not hers.

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