I have a few yarns I heard when I was a kid and have embellished them a little to make more entertaining.

Here's and example-





The show arrived in town every September, to celebrate the arrival of springtime. One of the features of the show was an old Tiger Moth aircraft which took people for joyrides over the little town of Weethalle.

Uncle Jim always wanted to take the joyride but as it cost 100 dollars his wife Peggy always stymied his idea. “A hundred dollars is a lot of money,” she used to say. They attended the show every year and on each occasion Jim would ask the same question, but unfortunately always received the same answer, “A hundred dollars is a lot of money!”

One year Jim was wandering around the aircraft hanger and wistfully thinking what might have been. Suddenly he noticed a sign he had not seen before, attached to the gate of the aircraft enclosure.

“Free ride for anyone who can take a ‘loop the loop’ and not make a sound,” the sign said.

In total excitement Jim found Peggy and gave her the great news. “We can have a free flight Peggy,” he yelled. “The plane has two passenger seats directly behind the pilot which means we can both take the flight.” Jim continued.

“Now, remember Peggy, not one little squeal and we have a free ride,” Jim kept saying over and over again as they walked toward the aircraft.

At last it was their turn and the excited pair boarded the little plane. The pilot took off and began flying in a straight line for a few minutes. Suddenly the nose dropped and the plane dived dramatically. In a split second the plane was flying up-side-down and then pulled out of the dive and began flying normally again.

Not a sound was heard from the passengers so the pilot repeated the ‘loop the loop’.

He soon realized he was not going to entice a scream from his passengers and so he landed the plane. He then turned to Jim and congratulated him.

“Where’s your wife,” the pilot asked as they climbed out of the plane. Jim looked a little guilty and said, “She fell out during the second loop!”

“What!!” the pilot screamed in total horror. “Why didn’t you say something?”

With a bemused look on his wrinkled old face Jim said, “As my lovely wife used to say, ‘one hundred dollars is a lot of money’!”