chuckv97 - Posted - 05/22/2021:  13:33:43

figment of his fertile imagination.

His government grant ran out

OM45GE - Posted - 05/22/2021:  13:34:44

at a crucial point in his research project.

He was forced to

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/22/2021:  18:18:04

to admit that he was secretly spying to obtain secret information.

He was later

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/22/2021:  19:07:32

exiled to Bolivia where raises chickens, corn, and kidney and Lima beans.

He

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/22/2021:  19:18:09

never visits Lima, Peru, preferring vacations in the West Shetland Islands.

It was there that he

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/22/2021:  19:28:38

met Dick Blick who taught him to swim the breast stroke.

Now

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/23/2021:  00:22:58

he thinks he can out swim anybody.

Turns out he

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/23/2021:  04:33:29

can’t swim in a straight line but instead tends to circle right.

As a result

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/23/2021:  07:22:14

he often circles tired swimmers with the sharks.

The Shetlands are home to many fine fiddlers

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/23/2021:  19:29:58

that love to play for hours on end.

The last time they

OM45GE - Posted - 05/24/2021:  03:26:50

went on tour was a mixed success.

They played to packed houses but

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/24/2021:  05:25:43

didn’t take in enough income to pay for expenses.

Soon

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/24/2021:  06:30:44

with a little practice they should get better.

Well

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/24/2021:  06:51:24

drilling was never my favourite pastime.

The muck and slime

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/24/2021:  11:09:17

tends to clog up the hole that was being drilled.

They often

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/24/2021:  13:31:24

knock off of work early to drink beer and talk smart.

Sometimes

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/24/2021:  15:48:38

the conversations really get out of hand.

Which leads to

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/24/2021:  17:21:39

bad feelings between friends and coworkers.

Once

OM45GE - Posted - 05/24/2021:  17:32:49

things got so bad they had to call the police.

The cops didn’t

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/24/2021:  19:07:15

slap the cuffs on anyone, however.

They were bought a round

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/24/2021:  19:07:47

show up for two hours.

They finally

OM45GE - Posted - 05/25/2021:  04:03:23

arrived and sauntered around looking important.

The asked

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/25/2021:  04:50:42

the well drillers for a drilling discount for a new police station well.

In turn

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/25/2021:  07:08:41

the drillers were allowed to take the police cruisers for a spin down the backroads.

Two days later

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/25/2021:  09:06:53

they found the cruisers laying on their tops.

It looked

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/25/2021:  14:10:10

as though the well diggers had used the cop cars in the annual county fair demolition derby.

Sure enough

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/25/2021:  15:32:36

there was nothing left worth anything at all.

Seems they should

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/25/2021:  20:20:49

the trophy was lying beside the drunken, passed-out welldiggers.

Sgt. O’Hara arrived on the scene

OM45GE - Posted - 05/26/2021:  03:27:01

utterly confused by the conversation.

He was hoping

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/26/2021:  04:23:05

get a winning lottery ticket so he could retire to a tropical destination.

The store clerk

OM45GE - Posted - 05/26/2021:  04:36:20

was willing to sell him as many tickets as he wanted.

He did caution him about

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/26/2021:  04:55:57

his excessive coffee consumption, warning him of the perils of caffeine overindulgence.



He just smiled

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chuckv97 - Posted - 05/26/2021:  06:49:19

and said his wife liked his stamina.

O’Hara’s wife, Penelope, often

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/26/2021:  09:23:14

gets very confused during the evening activities.

One time she

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/26/2021:  13:12:40

became so aroused in the throes of passion that she almost forgot that her husband would soon be home from work.

Quickly she

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/26/2021:  17:09:19

came to her senses as she prepared her revenge.

It was comical but

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/26/2021:  18:16:57

not everybody found it a laughing matter.

As a matter of fact,

OM45GE - Posted - 05/27/2021:  03:15:18

the local pastor was singularly unamused.

Her behavior was a topic

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/27/2021:  04:50:26

consternation among family members and his peers.

The local newspaper

OM45GE - Posted - 05/27/2021:  05:09:41

ran a story about her shenanigans but buried on the back page.

It still caused

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/27/2021:  05:52:21

a big ruckus among the family members that never seemed to forget.

One time

OM45GE - Posted - 05/27/2021:  05:58:35

they all got together to celebrate the Fourth of July and a huge fight broke out.

The neighbors were not

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/27/2021:  06:04:45

very amused at all about the situation that was unfolding.

Someone called

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/27/2021:  06:24:22

for pizza delivery and another went to the power house for more booze.

This livened up

OM45GE - Posted - 05/27/2021:  06:35:44

the neighborhood beyond their wildest dreams.

In fact, it got

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/27/2021:  09:00:24

got so out of hand that the cops were called several times.

When they arrived

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/27/2021:  09:02:31

they immediately got drunk.

A cop’s life

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/27/2021:  10:42:21

can be very stressful and the imaginary boost from booze was welcome.

The next morning

KyBanjo - Posted - 05/27/2021:  12:55:25

Penelope served the Sarge a fine breakfast with all the trimmings.


He wandered why she