So, I was on the phone with my mother last night, and she was telling me this story about how she was at the bank and she was making a deposit and discussing the deposit with the teller and then this guy came up behind her and said "Give me the fifties and the hundreds" and she thought "Gee, he's got a nerve cutting in line like that", but she didn't look up from writing the deposit slip, and she glanced at the teller and saw her hand him stacks of money...

And she realized that she was in the middle of a bank robbery!

Everyone stayed calm, and Mom just kept scribbling furiously and sort of sidled to the left as though to give him more room and she never looked up. And he got his money and left and everyone just sort of stood there with their mouths open. And out in the parking lot was a man rubbing his eyes, because the robber had dropped the booby-trapped part of the money and some guy picked it up and got pepper-sprayed, but that was the only thing that really happened.

Of course, all kinds of things could have happened. Someone could have panicked and the guy could have started shooting or taking hostages, or he could have pushed my Mom out of the way or hurt her, but none of it did. She could have been in Dog Day Afternoon!

The thing that my Mom found most annoying about the whole thing was that she had to wait around for the FBI and she missed the other bank being open by one minute!

Funnily enough, my Mom was in the movie Killing Zoe a few years ago, which was about bank robbery that goes horribly wrong and my Mom, as head teller, gets her head blown off. There's a neat scene where Gary Kemp puts out a joint in the blood flowing from her skull.

If you want to see a picture of her in the movie, click here.

On sort of the same subject, I noticed recently that there's a height chart on the door of the Dunkin' Donuts near the theatre, and it took me awhile, but I finally figured it out.

It's so that if they get robbed, they'll be able to tell the cops the burglar's height.

It's been a very fertile couple of days for humour in on-line journals.
Don't believe me? Well, have a look at Daniel's fusable webbing story, Scott's ducks crossing the street story, and Jen's bra story, and then tell me that I'm wrong.

Hey, lookee what Deb gave me!

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