In an attempt to prevent a dying tree from falling over into his house, a Tennessee homeowner hired a company to cut it down in advance, just to be safe. Unfortunately, there’s no way he ‘wood’ have known what would happen next: the hired crew was the one who smashed into his home. “Hired a company to cut down a dying tree that I could foresee falling and busting our window out,” Bass_jockey wrote in his Reddit post, then ironically followed with, “The tree guys busted our window out.”
Fortunately, these aren’t some random contractors who would run off instead of facing the music of bashing down a family’s window. “They’ve done a lot of work for us and other families over the years,” wrote Bass Jockey. “We have good faith with the owner.” That said, the company agreed to replace the window without any argument. “Still sucks,” OP sighed.
Reddit Took this Tennessee Man’s Misfortune as An Opportunity to Whip Out Their Best Puns
Thousands of Redditors felt the Tennessee man’s predicament couldn’t have been more comically ironic and began a stream of whimsical puns in the comments. “Bright side, you’re not paying for the busted window. If the tree came down on it’s own, you wood be,” chuckled one user. “It’s still gonna be a pane to fix,” remarked a second.
“Birch, PLEASE,” quipped a third, “Gonna go out on a limb here, was the crew just shattered by the impact of their work?” chuckled a fourth, to which Bass Jockey even responded, “Thanks for this laugh.”
Among the dozens of others joking around, several commenters did throw out an opinion or two about the situation. “I don’t think I’d get a wink of sleep if I only had a tarp protecting my house from entry. I hope the repair is quick!” exclaimed a Redditor. The tarp was just a cover around the time of the accident; according to the homeowner, the team actually boarded up the whole window and promised to return next week to finish the job.
In a joking tone, one user said that Bass Jockey was somewhat at fault for acting on his prediction, which is actually what brought about the result he was trying to avoid. OP responded in kind with a facetious reply: “Just figured I’d expedite the process.”
