My mom was walking in our neighborhood recently when she met a neighbor who told her about the house problems she'd been having. The neighbor had noticed some marks on the wall above her fireplace mantel. She said to a contractor, "What are these? It's not water." He cut out a five foot section of her wall and found a bee hive that went the length of the fireplace. Behind it was the petrified body of a rat. Its teeth were embedded in a wire which had electrocuted it and started a fire. But the honey had put out the fire, thus saving the house.
This same thing happened to the mother of the sister in law of a friend of my dad's second cousin, Primo d'Aprile, from Sicily.
ReplyDeleteI'm telling the truth, you know. My mom's neighbor really did tell her that.
ReplyDeleteI believe you but cousin Primo is hard to convince.
ReplyDeleteAnd then Bill Murray came up behind me, and said, "can I bum a smoke?". I said, "It's bill murray!". He said, "go ahead and tell people, they're never going to believe you".
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P.S. That is a great story. It has to be true. Just kidding about Bill Murray though.
If I were super famous I could use Murray's line all the time. :)
ReplyDeleteBut with a name like Primo d'Aprile
ReplyDeletewhy should we listen to him?
Hmmm, and they didn't experience any power loss anywhere when the rat chewed through the wire??
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Linda... Jim, I totally missed your corny Italian pun the first time. :)
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