What's So Funny?
Russell Gayer, author speaker
Triple F Carpentry
One of the stories I currently have under construction is entitled “Triple F.” Brian and Julie Snyder have a massive water leak and need a plumber—immediately. The good news is there’s a company nearby who can respond to their emergency. The bad new is its Triple F Plumbing.
If you look below the logo on their truck you’ll find the motto, “We’re slow, but we’re expensive.”
After seeing this week’s photo prompt, the Triple F crew, Frank, Fido, and Phil, jumped at the opportunity to expand their home repair business by showing off their carpentry skills.
Our construction superintendant, and the person in charge of issuing building permits for Friday Flash Fiction, is Chief Inspector Rosanna Anna Danna Wisoff-Fields. To learn how to participate, in this weekly exercise in madness, visit her blog, http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/ after which, scroll down to the blue In links critter and follow the links to other author’s blogs.
Fido was exhausted. “Hey Phil, can we rest a minute after this next board?”
“I guess so. It’s been almost twenty minutes since our last break. Where’s Frank?”
“He’s stretched out under the porch. Been asleep for the last two hours.”
“Well, that’s better than drooling all over the homeowner’s wife—like he did yesterday.”
“She didn’t seem to mind. I think she liked the attention.”
“This plank looks a little short. Hand me those board stretchers, will ya?”
“What’s next, after we finish remodeling the house, Phil?”
“Tear down that ugly picket fence and build one that matches the place.”
*Frank is a yellow lab.
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Dear Rastas,
I’m guessing Frank would do a better job of carpentry than Fido and Phil. What’s their number so I can blot it out of my Rolodex. Funny stuff. Thanks for the morning yukkles as I watch my yard disappear under a solid sheet of whiteness.
Rosanna Anna Danna
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Yes, and Frank is always a hit with the ladies. A cold nose and a warm heart.
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“If it’s not one thing, it’s another, if it’s another thing, it’s a sweat ball on the end of Doctor Joyce Brothers’ nose.”
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You made me spill my drink.
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Hi Russell,
You sound like you have actual experience in the construction business. My uncle was a carpenter. He’d send me out to to truck to look for the “board stretcher.” I never found it. Great fun story! Ron
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Yep, I was a framing carpenter for 3 years. The board stretchers are usually stored next to the left-handed shovels.
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Funnnnny!! 😆 Cleaver from the introduction to the completion of the story Frank is the dog. Priceless.
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🙂 I particularly like that they’re going to make a matching fence!!!
janet
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It will probably take 3 or 4 months since they only work 20 minutes between breaks. Thanks for providing a photo that Frank, Fido, and Phil could work with 🙂
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Yes, I loved the 20 min. between breaks, too. Forgot to mention it. The photo’s my pleasure.
janet
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This is what I liketo read…really good wit!
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Most people consider me a half-wit, so thanks for the complement.
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after the Rosana Anna Danna I was already laughing.
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It’s a challenge coming up with a new name for Rochelle every week. Rich is much more creative at that than me 🙂
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you both are pretty good, and fearless! 🙂
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I can give you a few more. 😉
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ugly picket fence??? Why only the triple F could have those eyes.
how do you do it every week!
Loved it right from before the story started and after it ended.
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Thanks, Parul. The darn fence makes the rest of the place look bad. We’ve got to do something about that.
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Cute! I have a picture in my head of all of them now. Fun play with the names. And the fence – Hahaha! Enjoyed it.
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Finally some comedy. I have seen so much death witht his prompt I wondered if i had missed somethin gin the instructions. I would welcome Frank, but the other “F”ellows would need to stay at home.
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Thank you, Joe. I can’t write, spooky, scary, supernatural, mystery, romance, or any other good stuff that makes people ponder mysteries of the universe. I’m more confortable in the realm of silly, stupid, asinine,ridiculous, etc.
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Sounds like every team of workmen I’ve ever had in my home, apart from the dog. I could have forgiven them everything if they’d brought a yellow lab. Nicely done, always makes me smile.
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I heard Triple F had gone international. Too bad yours didn’t have a mascot.
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Frank is a yellow lab…haha
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Fun reading:) lol..and liked your introduction as well..
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Two f’s and a p = Triple F. I love the Three Stooges-style outlook Russell!
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Thanks, LA. In the longer story you get to experience that massive yawning expanse known as Fido’s ‘plumbers crack.’
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Now, that’s visual.
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LOL at that last line. hilarious! ^^
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I know this outfit. Cute dog. Just unhired them. I think you left out ‘the’ between ‘under’ and ‘porch’.
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Right you are. Thanks for catching that. It’s fixed now.
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Welcome. Do the same for me. I have to go and do some gardening now. Where is that left-handed shovel.
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Russell, you and the Queen of This Blog make me laugh SO hard. That story made me laugh even HARDER! You are the BEST in comedy relief. SO enjoyable!
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Thanks for the kind words, Kent. We do what we can.
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I’ve known too many of these kinds of workers in my life. funny stuff, 20 minutes of work between breaks…hahahaha
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Hi, Russell, you are amusing as ever. In addition, the Yellow Lab as Frank was nice touch. I think that same crew worked on my house a while back…
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It’s amazing how much work these guys get. Word of mouth I guess.
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Hello, those guys I’ve met I think. And that Frank is probably because they have any business at all, 🙂
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You’re right, Frank is Mr. Popularity. Fido and Phil – not so much.
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Interesting. Tear down the old one and build one that matches? Very interesting, indeed.
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