Question

Describe a short note on humorous incident?

Answer 1

My father bought a barn for a measly 800 dollars; he bought it from the provincial government, whom acquired it (very cheap) in a forced sale, as they intended to put a road through the former owner’s land. When my father won the bid, they hadn’t bothered to mention (until he handed over the check) that they expected the barn removed from the provincial land by a certain date, (about a month and a half away) or they’d simply flatten his new barn with their steamrollers and then charge him the cost of removing the debris. Yes, this is apparently legal, it’s a provincial bylaw. They also hadn’t mentioned that due to a confluence of factors, (tiny dirt road [yep, same one they meant to improve], overhanging power lines and train tracks) that there was no cost effective way for the barn to be removed, intact, from the land. In fact the only way my father could possibly move it at all, was to take careful notes and measurements, then take it apart piece by piece, move it in truckloads, and rebuild it.