A newly hired border guard arrived at his station for the start of the morning shift. Among the first to cross was a guy pushing a red wheelbarrel. This happened every workday morning until the guard started to become suspicious. Periodically he would stop the guy and inspect the wheelbarrel for hidden compartments and take the tire off to look inside. He never found anything. Finally, 40-years later, he stopped the guy and said this was his last shift before retiring. He just knew the guy was up to something and asked what it was, just between the two of them. Guy said, "Since I'm retiring today also, I'll tell you. It's simple, I've been smuggling wheelbarrels."

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), November 28, 2000

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LOL!!! Living about 10miles from the U.S. border and often going across, I can just picture some man pushing wheelbarrels across the border. My family will have a good laugh over this one. Thanks so much!

-- Abigail F. (treeofl@nbnet.nb.ca), November 28, 2000.

Funny story-bet some where, some how it's true! This one's true: A young boy is working for the summer on a farm with his Italian grandfather, Grandfather instucts the boy to get something from the shed, but the boy doesn't understand his Grandfathers thick accent and knows better than to ask twice, so he goes to the shed and loads all of the tools he can manage into the wheelbarrow. The boy runs as fast as he can back to his impatient Grandfather, only to him dump the tools on the ground and hollar "All I wanted was the 'weebar', why did you empty the shed!" My husbands Grandfather really was sweet.

-- Kathy (catfish@bestweb.net), November 28, 2000.