Tried the treadmill, to buck his poor trend
Power walking, he sought to amend,
But the machine changed its pitch,
When he hit the wrong switch,
And he straight away flew off the end.
This limerick may not make much sense on its own, but is the latest in a series. The others may be found here.
Mister Bump 
Laughing out loud as I know how it feels and you better have the leg power to stand up to the change to
get to the button or you do fly over the end. 👍
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oh, yes!
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This old guy has amazing recuperative powers. 🤣
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Just keeps comin 🤣
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I wished I bounced back that easily!
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It happens. All the time. The machine, it’s always the machine’s failure that causes it.
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This guy has an unfortunate knack of finding their weak points, wouldn’t you say? 🤣
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🤣🤣 This is a relatively common scene in comedy movies but this limerick has called its name, resuscitated it and set it laughing. I think it’s the brevity and the clever rhyming. Brevity brings levity. Brilliantly done!
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Thanks, Worms. Good to be appreciated especially from such a good poet as yourself.
It can be difficult squeezing everything into the count sometimes but I find that’s where the hard work is with limericks – saying broadly the same thing but in fewer (or more) syllables.
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Totally. It’s quite an art.
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This is one of my favorites so far!
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Glad you liked it. The limericks are easy but thinking up silly scenarios for him every day is becomming more difficult.
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I saw my daughter do that, she slammed straight into the wall behind her. I laughed so hard I got a stitch 😂
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I saw it many times 🤣
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No broken leg I hope?
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shaken not stirred perhaps
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Ahh exactly 👍
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