What are you doing online on the Fourth of July? Get out there and barbecue, drink some beer, see some fireworks. But since you're here already, Jean writes in that...

We had this guy at work who was always dirty. His clothes were rumpled, his hair looked greasy, his face looked like it needed a good scrubbing. He smelled funky too, not like BO necessarily, but just kinda like.....dirt. We used to joke that he must be inhabited by bugs of some sort. Little did we know we were right...

One day when we were all seated around the conference table, dirty dude started itching behind his left ear. And kept at it. That was disgusting enough, but then...something falls off his ear and scuttles across the table. It was a hugely engorged tick (it had to be on him forever to get THAT filled with blood)and it was running amok on the table. People screamed and ran to the furthest corners of the room. Dirty dude seemed kinda unconcerned like this was not an unusual occurrence, and then slammed his fist down on the tick, killing it while his blood splattered on the table. He did clean up his own blood though, I will give him that.

Oh, well, I guess since he cleaned up his own blood, no biggie then (can you sense my sarcasm?).

Happy Independence Day everyone, enjoy and be safe!