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The High Price of Ice

Old Grandpa Jones slipped and fell on the ice
Poor fellow paid a mighty heavy price
  He broke twenty-nine bones
  All day long, moans and groans
Hey, Gramps: You're one big prosthetic device




                     December 29, 2020
           Winter Snow or Ice Limerick Contest
                    Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
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Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2020

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Sara Kendrick Date: 1/11/2021 1:49:00 PM Back to say congrats. Sara..I hope your bruises red spots are all healed. Login to Reply

Andrea Dietrich Date: 1/10/2021 12:11:00 PM oh my. That was a good one! Congrats to you. Login to Reply

Paula Goldsmith Date: 1/9/2021 7:56:00 AM Congratulations on your win. What a mess he was. Guess he will stay off the ice. You made me laugh. Enjoy your win and weekend with blessings.................. Login to Reply

Jan Allison Date: 1/8/2021 3:52:00 PM got slip slidin away bussing in my head, many congrats GW:-) hugs jan xx Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 1/10/2021 3:49:00 PM That's interesting... I get the orthopedic connection here (although not the musical one). Thanks, Jan.

Jo Chamberlain Date: 1/8/2021 11:46:00 AM Great, I can just picture a robotic grandpa. Congratulations on your winning placement. Login to Reply

Sam Kauffman Date: 1/8/2021 9:35:00 AM Oh my goodness, Gershon! Congratulations on your win! I'm all broken up laughing! Slips and soft landings! Sam Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 1/10/2021 3:50:00 PM Yeah, Just slip-slidin' away, as Jan Allison wrote. Thanks, Sam! :) gw

Mark Koplin Date: 1/8/2021 7:32:00 AM At least he didn't run over by a reindeer! Congratulations on your win Gershon! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 1/10/2021 3:51:00 PM --though he might have slipped on a 'rain-deer!' lol. Thanks, Mark

Linda Alice Fowler Date: 1/8/2021 6:01:00 AM Cute - kinda like the bionic man :) Congratulations on the win Gershon! Linda Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 1/8/2021 1:58:00 PM Ha, ha! Great angle on Grandpa Jones there, Linda! Thanks for noticing my placement. Here's to Laughter and Merry-making! ~ gw

Tania Kitchin Date: 1/8/2021 4:16:00 AM Gershon, congratulations on your winning placement with your funny limerick! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 1/8/2021 1:59:00 PM Thanks for honoring this lim with a placement, Tania. It's the only non-artificial lim Grandpa Jones has left! lol. Take good care, Gershon

Lindsay Laurie Date: 12/30/2020 4:41:00 PM G’day Gershon … Gramps could have done an extra somersault to make it an even thirty bones Gershon. Don’t know why he’s groaning; we’re all chuckling - Happy New Year Gershon - Lindsay Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/30/2020 5:25:00 PM Those were his last 29 bones... Now Jones is 'broke,' literally and figuratively... Thanks for your clever comment, Lindsay! Peace, Gershon

Rico Leffanta Date: 12/30/2020 10:50:00 AM As you live in the Windy City, one hopes you are not trying to keep up with the Jones! Aloha! Rico Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/30/2020 5:26:00 PM To keep up with the Jones' would be a real 'boner' on my part, eh?! lol. Thanks, Rico

Kim Rodrigues Date: 12/30/2020 8:52:00 AM LOL! Poor gramps! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/30/2020 5:27:00 PM At least Gramps is 'hip' with all those 'devices' -- some of which are on his artificial hip. lol. Thanks, Kim!

Sara Kendrick Date: 12/30/2020 7:26:00 AM Great composition in poetic form. It has good flow, rhyme and rhythm. I am sure Grandpa's rhythm has slowed somewhat. Falls in the elderly are not funny for sure. I fell getting out of the bath tub with water in the tub and broke my pelvis in two places. It was like hairline fractures though. It was painful for a few months. Thanks for the visits to my page. Sara Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/30/2020 7:27:00 PM Ouch!! I'm amazed it was painful for 'only' a few months I can't (yet) imagine breaking my pelvis in even one place... I myself fell two weeks ago, right on my face -- hard -- and miraculously didn't even break my glasses or anything else. Had a couple of whopper 'raspberries' and colorful bruises, and a few aches for a week... I'm lucky I didn't have a concussion... Here's to staying upright, you and I both!!! HNY! :) gw

Caren Krutsinger Date: 12/29/2020 2:15:00 PM This could have happened in Kansas today. Well done! Black ice here Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/29/2020 4:57:00 PM I've just discovered what 'black ice' is. I don't know that they call it 'black ice' in Chicago. Might start a race riot or something. lol. Anyway, we'll have some tomorrow probably. ~ Slippin' and Slidin'