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A group of travelers are exploring a deep, dark, remote cave when they find a computer and a lunchbox.

Dramatic

A double agent is assigned by both of the countries they work for to capture their alias.

Dramatic

I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today, you told the airline employee.

Dramatic

Had I known I was going to have guests at 4am, I would've tidied up.

Dramatic

Forget Ferris Bueller, you were detemined to make this the best day off. Ever.

Funny

You're in a waiting room at a clinic that promises to cure writer's block.

Funny

You'd never had a bus ride quite like that.

Funny

You were ready to write the worst Amazon review ever.

Funny

You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment.

Funny

You had the greenest grass around. No one's could be greener. Right...?

Funny

You decide to buy a big school bus and to travel your country. You post an ad asking if anyone would like to join you. You're surprised by the number of people who show up.

Funny

When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world.

Funny

That night, the action backstage was even more dramatic than the story unfolding onstage.

Funny

Make the absurd absolutely and completely normal.

Funny

It was the kind of Friday that gave new meaning to the phrase TGIF.

Funny

It was the highest stakes game of rock-paper-scissors ever played.

Funny

In the midst of writer's block, an author goes to sit at a bus station looking for inspiration. They get more than they bargained for.

Funny

A sudden BANG! and puff of smoke emerged from a garage in a quiet suburban neighbourhood.

Funny

The dog ate my homework.

Funny

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