Family Business
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A woman who worked for her dad…
Here’s mine:
Family Business
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A woman who worked for her dad
Sure needed that job really bad.
Though she did have a skill,
Most employers don’t thrill
At a waitress who’s mastered her Strad.
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.
Update: Happy National Waiters and Waitresses Day! (May 21)
Update 2: Happy National Violin Day! (December 13)
Tags: December Holidays, Employment Humor, Family & Relatives Humor, Family Businesses, May Holidays, Money Poems, Musical Instruments Humor, Musical Verse, National Waiters and Waitresses Day, Odd Holidays, Poetry & Prompts, Restaurants, Strad, Stradivarius Violins, Violins, Waitress Humor, Workplace Poetry, Writing Prompts
A woman who worked for her Dad
Got a paycheck…that made her glad
But the kvetching and moaning
Nagging and groaning
Had her resume writing like mad
Stradavarius?
What’s not to love about a musical waitress?
Or am I being clueless?
A woman who worked for her dad
– An Impaler whose first name was Vlad –
Helped him sharpen his tools,
Which he stuck in some fools,
Just to help the old man made her glad…
A woman who worked for her dad
Was worried her gift taste was bad.
“Happy Father’s Day, Hef.
This was all they had left.”
And so his new jammies are plaid.
A woman who worked for her dad
Always got dressed wearing plaid
Though she harbored no guilt
Of wearing a kilt
Her bagpipes were sagging real bad.
These are great fun. Please keep them coming! Thanks.
And Joyce, to answer your question, professional musicians are always worrying about their hands. Also, and I say this as someone who worked as an oboist and also had lots of other jobs, employers always sense, or at least suspect, that an accomplished musician would rather be doing something else. And they’d be right. :)
A woman who worked for her dad
Building a synthetic gonad
Found the testing was grim
Impregnated by “him”
Not knowing by whom made her sad
A woman who worked for her Dad
When she showed up scantily clad,
Said “Oh, what a fool,
I thought ‘office pool’
Meant bikini dress code,” Too bad.
A woman who worked for her dad
Had no choice as a new college grad
The economy sucked
Like her peers, she was fu..llout of luck
Nepotism was all that she had!
A woman who worked for her dad
got the very best office they had.
But this heir’s poor parent
learned his judgment was errant
(her errors were apparently bad)
A fella who worked for his mom
could handle most crises with calm
but he thought of deserting
when he caught his ma flirting
at the help desk, with a techie named Tom
A woman who worked for her dad
WW-II Scene
A woman who worked for her dad
At his office in erstwhile Stalingrad
Her job was to count the dead
That perished of German lead
And then realized the Russians had been had!
At the Butchery
A woman who worked for her dad
Who for goat liver had a crazy fad
So she cooked the curry
In a massive hurry
But the chilies she doled made her father made!
At the Swimming Pool
A woman who worked for her dad
Feared her future would be rather sad
For her doting Pater
Always schedule her wedding for later
Until a skimpier swim suit was to be had!
At the School
A woman who worked for her dad
At a high school stared at an imaginary chemical salad
Of potatoes and Kalium Bichromicum
To relieve her of respiratory delirium
But the students knew for sure she was as mad as her Dad!
At an Office
A woman who worked for her Dad
Was piqued at the girl friends he had
Since they walked past her desk
With airs, lipsticks grotesque
Skirts too short- so she shrugged and said it was rather sad!
A woman who worked for her dad,
Suddenly decided to turn very bad.
And she did elope
With a long haired dope
Leaving her old man very very sad.
A woman who worked for her dad,
Look okay but was just slightly mad.
She thought it was funny
To eat toads dipped in honey
And believe me they tasted really bad.
A woman who worked for her dad,
Swore that she never could be had.
By any male of the species alive
But into women she would dive
And make all of them really glad.
Half Good~
A woman who worked for her Dad
loved to drink and always wore plaid..
I predict.. swore her Gran
a feeble minded man..
and for her that won’t be half bad..
These are great fun. Please keep them coming. Thanks!
A woman who worked for her Dad
Said: “I think my old man is a cad!
I’m detecting a tryst in
The way his assistant
Appears inexplicably glad.”
A woman who worked for her dad
Found her father to be a real cad
Searching for something new
A want ad she did view…
For the job that she already had!
A woman who worked for her dad
had thought that the job would be rad.
She turned out to be
much mistaken, you see,
as a boss her dad was really bad!
A woman who worked for her dad
Wished that she hadn’t have had
A need for speed
Or speed as a need
Nascar pit crew wouldn’t make her so sad
A woman who worked for her dad
While the hula hoop was a fad
Had fun while it lasted
When it ended she blasted
Into astrophysics. Boy! Was she glad!
A woman who worked for her dad
Was underworked, bored and sad
When one day she flew
He said, “Just wait, you
Will see that you’ll miss what you had!”
Dis is my kinda gal!
A dame who woiked fa her dad
As it toins out wuzn’t haff bad.
She swung bats to da knees,
ignored da mark’s pleas, an’
Den took all da dough dat he had.
A woman who worked for her dad,
Gave her all, “But” – and this is quite sad –
“Your skills just aren’t that keen”,
So she joined the Marines
And now runs black-ops out of Baghdad.
A comrade who worked for her dad
Saved her money, then sold all she had
Left Russia with great glee
T’wards the land of the free
But found she preferred Trinidad.
A woman who worked for her dad
Was used to seeing ladies unclad
Her name is Christie
‘Hef”‘s her dad- Nudity
was a constant at the Playboy pad
Christie worked her way up to VP
Became president in ’83
But in 2008
She stepped down to create
A philanthropic 501 (c) 3
A woman who worked for her dad,
Sold iPhones but thought it a fad,
Till Face Time convinced her,
To play with a Mister.
Now phone calls so bring out her Bad.