Twenty Funny Stories Book Two

By Margaret Radisich Sleasman

This book is made up of twenty, short humorous stories; a few from Sleasman's background and situation family humor taken from one small incident and ad-libbed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Margaret Radisich Sleasman
• Release date: Oct 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465970701

Margaret Radisich Sleasman

I have many interests, love reading mystery books, anything about tigers, and grandkids (not particularly in that order). I wrote a Bible study and am pretty much unmoveable in my literal biblical view - so don't try. I am attempting to write a couple mysteries one for adults and one for pre-teens. I edited and published a monthly historical newsletter, "The Pacific Northwest Croatian" for seven years and learned much about my people during that time. I have been writing on Helium since July of 2009 and Faithwriters since December 2009. I found the humor section and discovered that humor may be my niche, but my first love is writing Christianity articles. I have five grandchildren. I have five children, grown - but not grown up. We have a German Shepherd (Kobe)and a potbelly pig (Porky). Spent 35 years of my life making concrete lawn ornaments. I am Croatian, my husband is German... a family of stubborn, but silly people. That's about it.

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TWENTY FUNNY

STORIES

BOOK TWO

By Margaret Radisich Sleasman

Published by Margaret Radisich Sleasman at Smashwords

Copyright: 2010 Margaret Radisich Sleasman:

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my family, relatives, and the Croatian friends in the community in which I grew up. The Croatian sense of humor is probably the best in the world as far as I am concerned. We may be a strange group at times, but have a zest for life unparallel to any other nationality that I have met.

None of these stories are true; maybe a sentence or two and then I enlarged it to my viewpoint. I hope that others will chuckle and not find my writing insulting, that was not my intent.

After you read these stories, you will know without a doubt what you suspected all along, I am totally insane. Laughter extends your life, so laugh with me or at me; God bless you all.

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Introduction

I never knew I was Funny

I went through most of my life never knowing I was funny. I discovered I had a little funny talent when I was 66 years old. Up until then, I had a sense of humor, but did not really know I was capable of making people laugh. All this time, I thought others were laughing because they were mocking me. I truly enjoy good humor, but never cared for slapstick or the Three Stooges type where they are hitting each other to get laughs. All I could think about was, Boy that must have hurt!

I believe stress can cause a person to either, fall into depression, go insane or lean towards seeing humor in a situation. In my case, a little insanity is a good thing and the stress brought out humor instead of depression. One day I read a short humor article and thought to myself, I can do this, so I began to type. Oh my, the feedback started coming in; either they thought it was funny or that I was insane. A new career was born; I could look at my husband, myself, various members of my family and stories would just pop into my head.

My family and friends have distanced themselves a bit because they are afraid I will write about them; my husband thinks I am making fun of him (but actually doesn’t mind), and my kids are extremely happy that I may have added a few years to my life.

Granted, these stories are mostly NOT true, but the little bit that is gets my mind going and somehow turns into a funny situation and makes me laugh. I have no idea how this happens, but I am happy that it does. My cholesterol count has gone down, the headaches left, and each time something stressful happens in my life; I write a funny story. This does not make the situation go away, but it makes it much easier to deal with.

The old apple a day theory has been changed to a funny story a day for me. Laughing does improve your health and your outlook on life; or maybe I have just gone crazy and don’t know it yet.

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1. Customer Service

Everyone knows there is no such thing, but we are still conditioned to think so and hope beyond hope that someone will be able to help us with our problem.