Life’s Little Victories
Life’s Little Victories are the tiny little daily occurances that we should take a moment to celebrate. I suggest a fist or two in the air, and shouting “YES!!”
What began as a one-shot strip has blossomed into a regular reader favorite.
Send us your Victory!
Don’t hold back!! Send in YOUR Little Victories and keep an eye out for ’em in upcoming strips!! Leave your victory in the comments box or email them to keef@kchronicles.com.
The #1 Sent Life’s Little Victory (Ahem–so you don’t need to send that one in any more, okay?):
The sports car that cut you off five minutes ago…
gets bagged by the cops for speeding! YES!
Own your very own Victory!
For $250, Keef will draw YOUR Little Victory, sign it, and send it out to you, suitable for framing. Please run the Victory by Keef before you order…he reserves the right to reject freaky victories!!
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Excellent!! Too many of my heroes are dying these days..
We went to the Grand Canyon and all the campsites were full, but then right when we drove up to the best site in the campground, the family that was in it pulled out!
Walking my two little poodle dogs, one stops to poop….and the other one does too!
One stop pooperscooping, with one bag! YES!
You’re having a beer in a restaurant, and when it’s just got one mouthful left, the waitress knocks it over… and brings you a fresh one at no charge!
Losing the same glove 5x over the winter, dinding it four times, and then spotting it in the lost n found at the store you just walked into! YES! “A lady just brought it in! (Checkout fem.) (Me): “La-la-la nice lady!” J> Lewis impression from the Mothers of Invention, the ‘Just Anoother Band from L. A. album!
you are pulling the last two dollars out of your wallet to buy something off the dollar menu, but your hungry enough to eat a horse, and you discover a 20 is stuck to one of the singles.
It was time to renew the license on my beater car, and to do so I needed an emission check. The check engine light kept coming on and going off randomly, but if I went for the check and it was on, the car wouldn’t pass, making a trip to a mechanic necessary and a repeat trip to the emission check place. The check engine light was temporarily off, so I took a chance and went in for the test. It passed! I drove out of the parking lot and down the street 100 feet, and the check engine light blazed on again. No big deal now, no worries for two more years.
So 2 things bugging me on the way in to the store- i can’t remember one thing I need that I didn’t write down and second something stuck in my teeth I can’t get out- Finally the stuck thing gets loose and it’s a bit of popcorn shell. AND that’s what I needed! popcorn!!! Yay!!! Life’s little victories
Bought a used CD online…and not only did it arrive quickly, but it had an unmentioned autograph!
Yer finishing up on the can and notice there are only a few sheets left – just enough to do the job!
Much in line with a recent strip:
You go to relieve yourself and discover mid-stream that a stray hair “down there” has deflected the stream. Miraculously, not a drop misses the intended destination (BTW this never really happens).
A true story.
I get on a fully packed flight going across the country.
As we taxi away from the gate, the young woman seated next to me calls the Stew.
She arrives and my seatmate politely asks, ” Can I get off. I’m having a panic attack.”
And they turn the plane around, return to the gate, let her out, and suddenly I’ve got both the window and the aisle seats.
Finding a forgotten basket of clean clothes – which means you don’t have to do laundry today after all! YES!
Life’s little seed farming victories – debating whether to harvest seed from both varieties of lettuce we’re growing, deciding to just do it, and then an hour later a huge surprise thunderstorm blows over the farm, dumping almost 2″ of rain that would have destroyed the crop completely. YES!
being the first person to use a just-delivered porta-potty!
As a woman who is decently competent with cars, going in to an auto parts store expecting to be talked down to and generally undermined but instead you get treated like a real person with a brain. YES!
You’re waiting for your laundry to dry at the laundromat and go into the shoe store next door. There is only one pair of really cute $200 shoes left, so they’re on sale for $39, AND THEY’RE IN YOUR SIZE!
Your frig dies, along with all the food in it. You get to the appliance store and the extra-super-fancy frig you want had the newer model come out, so you get the last year floor model for the same price as the basic one you were about to buy – wooo-whoooo!! (TRUE STORY THIS WEEK!)
You finally get around to adding your significant other to your auto insurance policy, and instead of costing more, you get a REFUND of $100 for adding a good driver. YES!
Finally finishing that big container of milk or juice on the day immediately before your recycling pickup.
Knocked over a nearly-full seltzer can, soaking the newspaper. But entirely missed the hardback library book sitting on top of it!
Buying something with cash, and it comes out to an even dollar amount. You get to pay with one bill. Woot!
When you volunteer to dogsit for a dog you hate — but feel obliged to — and then they change their plans and you’re off the hook!
Figuring out a quick and easy way to download a text version of your Spotify playlist! 3,000+ individually selected songs + artists, each one cherished.
Rediscovering that you have Biscoff cookies in the pantry, and they’re still good!
You start a big upload or download, go out for the evening, and get home just in time to watch it roll over from 99% to 100%
Leaving the post office in the midst of an New England blizzard, I start the car, the wipers are still turned on, and one of them flies off! Ane et was the passenger side!
Discovering your water heater is leaking…
…all over the old carpeting you recently decided to replace.
Getting an ear worm of a song you ABSOLUTELY LOVE!
Approaching a computer data problem with great trepidation, and solving it in less than a minute!
Wife’s horses are out of hay in february,upstate n.y., you hook up the trailer, and NO FLAT TIRES!!! And the licence and registration ARE STILL GOOD !! To top it off, ALL THE LIGHTS WORK!!! Triple victory!!
I dropped garden clippers point down on my big toe. Lots and lots of blood. No one in the neighborhood answers my calls for help. Two cars drive by and I wave frantically. The first car goes away but the second pulls into a driveway across the street. A lovely young woman comes over quickly. We decide it’s best to go to ER and she wraps up my foot and drives me there. Several stitches. WE EACH GOT A NEW FRIEND! Worth every bit of blood and pain.
When traffic comes to a standstill…just as you’re exiting the freeway
Finding a recipe that sounds good and easy, /and/ that you have all the stuff for. YES!!
Peeling a hard boiled egg, and the shell fully releases in only four large pieces! Score!
I got one for you. Earlier this week I was cleaning out a cabinet in the kitchen and throwing out old bottles of salad dressing, etc. and in the back I found an unopened jar of MY FAVORITE MOLE SAUCE from a company that went out of business. It was past the “best by” date but still good. YES!
When you call someone you don’t want to talk to and it goes straight to voicemail. YESS
When you forget to set an alarm before sleeping, and you luckily wake up naturally at the right time in the morning
Sneezing immediately after applying liquid eyeliner but it doesn’t smudge at all!
Keef, you decide to go to London. You book your economyflight and seats with British airways.upon arrive late airport the ticket agent says mr Knight we are sorry bathe flight is over booked and you’re being bumped to first we apologies for this inconvenience. Bonus, free food and booze. You take full advantage, you are to use a Brit word gobsmacked after the ten hour flight you land at heathrow. You rush to find the baggage carousecarosel, good luck with that put on hiking shoes first when you finally arrive you discover you bags are already there. The same happens on your return flight BTW while in London you met the queen.
Middle aged 60-yr old guy is at gym on cardio machine, one of 15 in the row, all empty when he starts. 5 minutes in the hottest young woman in the building sets up on the machine right next to his, making the next 20 minutes MUCH more enjoyable – a little life victory. (Keep up the good work, Keith! I am longtime Funny Times subscriber)
While on hold with ye olde credit union, your hold music is Ritchie Havens’s “Here Comes The Sun”! 🎶☺️
Approaching the box office at the ol’ ball park with my son, and a nice lady walks up and gives us two $50 tix she can’t use. Then the game almost turns out to be the first combined perfecto in MLB history (Rays-Orioles, 7/14/19 – lost it in the 9th).
The turtle made it across the road!!! Little dude was bookin’! (Next week, so did the squirrel, through 2 lanes & 65 mph traffic)
The garbage truck just passed our house, when he sees me running to put the garbage can out late, he backs up to get it. Awesome guys! 🤗🙏🏻🤙🏻🙌🏻
Your cheating pretentious ex of a boss becomes a teen writer after not being accepted to grad school.
The stressmeister VP tells you to go to the data center to fix the network outage that is blocking the deployment. You get there and find the server where it is supposed to be “Yes!”, the cable accurately labeled, “Yes!”. Find the network switch easily “Yes!”, touch the end of the network cable and it goes “click” into place and lights up. An easily traced (bundles as big as your arm), good (50 feet long), but improperly seated network cable. “Yes!” And IT reports that fixed it “Yes!” Took longer to drive there and get through security.
Picking up a new book I reserved (“Squeeze Me” by Carl Hiaasen) at my favorite locally-owned brick-and-mortar book bookstore, and it’s a signed first edition! Woo hoo!
Life’s Little Victory: Opening the already running dryer to insert that one stray, wet washcloth and doing so quick enough it continues its cycle WITHOUT RESTART button needing to be pushed. YES!
Excuse any duplication. Been meaning to write for DECADES, (as I first discovered ya, Keef, via FUNNY TIMES in the early ’90s..)
Love your art.
I had my personally built budget gamer pc shipped from Hawaii to Maryland and the shippers delivered in upside down and dented, the graphics card did not work. I thought it was useless for about a year then I read on how if you ship from hawaii the moisture might get caught in the parts and I looked online and saw you could put them in the oven, I didn’t want to ruin my oven though. I took it apart and used my blowdryer and bam it came back to life after a year of me thinking it was trash! I am still using it 4 years later :)