Hick Humor

In my previous blog post, I mentioned that I have a tendency to keep my mouth shut and allow people to think me pure. But occasionally I open my mouth and remove all doubt.

About 10 years ago I got a job working in the back room of a phone card manufacturer. I helped package large bundles of phone cards that were shipped all around the country. I also had a couple coworkers who similarly packaged up phone cards.

One day my coworkers got a little bored, and noticed the calendar on wall. This calendar just had pictures of a tractors in various farms. No people. Just machines.

Well, my coworkers decided to start treating it like it was a pinup calendar. “Look at the curves on that one,” one person would say. Another would state “I like the headlights on that baby.” And so this continued for a few minutes.

At one point in this bantering I piped up with, “I want to ride that one all night!”

Dead silence.

You can almost hear the crickets chirp.

And then they bust out laughing. My comment was apparently a conversation killer because they quit trying to one-up the comments after that.

Both they and I were surprised that I could even say something like that. Poor, innocent Richard.