A Cold Short Story

The Indians asked their Chief in Autumn if the Winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the chief replies that the Winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared. Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This Winter is going to be quite cold indeed." So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold Winter." So the Chief goes back to his people and

I chipped a tooth on my soup! My Dad was wearing golfing gloves on both hands! The dogs were wearing cats! Starbucks was serving coffee on a stick! People with traffic tickets would plead guilty and beg for the electric chair! Terrorists started to stockpile weapons-grade hot chocolate! Levi Strauss started manufacturing electric jeans! The rats were bribing the alley cats for a snuggle. We had to chop up the piano for firewood - but we only got two chords. We had to carry around hammers and chisels so we could get out of our parkas! When we milked the cows, we got ice cream! When we milked the brown cows - we got chocolate ice cream! Words froze in the air. If you wanted to hear what someone said, you had to grab a handful of sentences and take them in by the fire! The dogs had to put jumper cables on the rabbits - just to get them running! Playboy magazine stopped publishing because no women would take their clothes off. We pulled everything out of the freezer and huddled inside it to warm up! The Husky Association was making emergency service calls to get the dog teams started! When we parked the sled, we either had to plug in the dogs - or keep them running in