Lafayette Man Wakes Up Neighbors With a Very Odd Request

Most of us know and like our neighbors. In South Louisiana, neighbors, if they aren't actually family, feel like family. We share carpool duties, trade cookouts and buy stuff from each others children during school fundraising season. That's why this story intrigued me so much, I had to share it with you.

You've probably heard us talk about Winky Dinky Dawg here on the radio station. He is one of our ace part time employees, all around good guy, and fellow who finds himself in some odd situations. I will let WDD, as we call him, tell you the story. His words are the ones in bold.

Here's my story.  Like most, I use Q tips every few days to clean the ole ears out. [Editor's note: He knows he should not be doing this, but he is a man and hardheaded]. While the Q tip is doing it's job, it breaks in half and I now have a half of a Q tip stuck in my ear. 

Unfortunately for me, I have no finger nails and pudgy little fingers.  I can feel it but can't get a hold of it to pull it out. It's before 8am on Memorial Day weekend and I live alone. [Editor's note: He does have 2 dogs but they have no thumbs. If he had lodged a tennis ball in his ear the dogs would have taken care of business but dogs don't chase Q-tips.] 

So I run out the house only to see my neighbors garage door down. I call them hoping they are home or awake.  They're home but NOT awake. [Editor's Note: He called them on his cellphone standing in their driveway.] 

I explain my situation about how I have half a Q-tip stuck in my ear and they began to laugh. [Editor's Note: They laughed a lot].

Finally their garage door opens  and I see them standing there smiling like I had just made their day, even though I just woke them up. [Editor's Note: they used a pair of tweezers to remove the Q-tip from his ear canal, they also instructed him that he should not use a Q-tip in that manner]

After a few short minutes the Q-tip was removed from my ear and I could hear again, what I heard was the sound of my neighbors laughing.

So that is Winky Dinky Dawg's story. This leads us to ask you this question, "What is the strangest thing a neighbor has ever asked of you?" Maybe they needed to borrow something or needed to store something odd in your garage. Maybe they asked for your help in hiding the body. Regardless, it can't be much worse than what happened to our own Winky Dinky Dawg.