I had a weekend filled with puns and grammar fun, which inspired me to finally make this little cartoon, though I’m sure this joke has been made before. I helped with my town’s Founders’ Day festival, which had a baseball theme this year. On the particular float with which I helped, we had a banner across the back that read “Go Home Team!”, to show our support for our home town and our togetherness as a community. After the frustration of preparing for the festival had accumulated, though, we were very much tempted to add in a little comma after Home; to reflect our dislike of the whole thing at that moment and our desire for the chaos to just be over with, the sign would have then said “Go Home, Team!”

At any rate, we overcame our moment of mischief, rethought the punctuation change and got 2nd in show. I am convinced that comma would have sold it and bumped us into 2st place.

As another one of my various volunteer duties, I was also the official ticket taker for a kiddie train ride. One of the kids who was waiting in line, had apparently just consumed twice his size in sugar and was amidst a sugar rush. He had a hilarious joke to share with me, which, due to its absolute awesomeness, I must now share with you.

The jittery shaking boy riddled me this: “You are riding your lawn mower, mowing the grass, and your cat gets stuck underneath. You run over your cat and chop off its tail. Where do you take it to fix it?”

I was prompted to ask where.

“Wal- Mart,” he bursts,” because they are the biggest… RE-TAILER!!”

The boy commences a laughing fit that has him rolling in the grass. I don’t know which was funnier – the way he told the joke, or his reaction to it. Either way, I found his joke hilarious and he was pleased. The train arrived and as he boarded, I heard him asking the kid beside him if he would like to hear a joke. The train took off at a whopping 2 mph and a couple minutes later, I heard the little boy shout the punchline and again, succumb to his cackling. It was great.