Latest Tales From Exit 22

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Al Batt: Life can be a slippery slope, but it’s a fantabulous ride

We were as young as we’d ever be.

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Al Batt: I wonder what is a garbage disposal’s least favorite food?

I was eating one of the few things Joey Chestnut hadn’t yet devoured.

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Al Batt: I’m thankful dodgeball didn’t involve a Challenger, Charger, Diplomat or Dart

Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt I woke up with a start in the middle of the ...

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Al Batt: Weather always happens whether we want it to or not

We’d be stuck for words if it weren’t for the weather.

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Al Batt: I remember my beloved father being much older than me

Ladies and gentlemen, horses and fleas, bowlegged ants and cross-eyed bees, I’ll be home for Father’s Day; it’ll ...

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Al Batt: I believe in letting my soggy smile be my discount umbrella

I’ve never seen it rain cats and dogs, but it’s going to rain when I see the Johnson’s ...

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Al Batt: Welcome to summer, start complaining about the heat for the next 93.6 exits

The average summer is supposed to have 93.6 days.

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Al Batt: Potholes prey upon drivers aged 35-44 who have good teeth and poor eyesight

I’d had an unpleasant experience. The store’s cashier was slow and rude. I tried to overlook his imperfections. ...

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Al Batt: There was a lot of name-calling during the graduation ceremonies

Welcome students, parents, teachers and staff of High Falutin High School.

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Al Batt: Does a mother sleep or just worry with her eyes closed?

I’d started working a summer job at a large factory.

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Al Batt: This rite of passage involved a right, a left and another left

It was rush hour in a small town. I waited for the only other moving car to find a ...

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Al Batt: Why do cardinals hate me, and who is that owl calling?

Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt I was in the grocery store. A man, holding a cellphone ...

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Al Batt: You know spring has sprung when the snow has gotten warmer

Spring is right around the snowbank.

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Al Batt: Remembering the good old days and the good cough drops

A friend grumbled about his bother-in-law.

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Al Batt: Why do men wear hats? Hatters gonna hat.

Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt A friend is fond of saying he’d forgotten where his head ...

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