Bonsai Humor Thread. You know you practice bonsai when.....

[BrianBay9]

...When you always carry a shovel, large plastic bags and rubber gloves in your trunk, you have to wonder what people think about you when they see them. ...What are burying from your car?...

You forgot the cordless reciprocating saw. Got to make the pieces small enough to fit in the bags!

 

[Kodama]

When you visit this site multiple times a day to read the headlines and wondering if they sell t-shirts

 

[HR13]

You forgot the cordless reciprocating saw. Got to make the pieces small enough to fit in the bags!

Yes!!! My husband and I were taking his mother to visit her fathers grave way up in the mountains in Northern California and I thought hmmm perfect yamadori opportunity and my husband didn’t notice I had packed a huge plastic bin, plastic bags, duct tape, a shovel and a couple gallons of water until we got home and he opened up the back of my truck and said, oh God, so glad mom didn’t see this! Because the trip purpose was taking her to the cemetery!!!

 

[HENDO]

When the first thing you do after getting back home from a trip is walk straight through the house past your family & pets, out the back door, and into the yard to check on your trees

 

[vp999]

...when you decide to go on a solo, wild tree huntin’ journey in the woods.. a man, a very military-looking rucksack.. and a big, old rusty shovel... aaand you end up causing a jogger to turn around in her spot and run the OTHER way, FAST. So you scream, “The shovel us just for trees!” as she cruises away from you.... realizing that TRYING to explain it... makes you seem MORE conspicuous.

Happened to me last year when I had shovels, saw zaw, big black trash bags and duck tape.

 

[Shogun610]

You call that a tree?
psh

 

[HorseloverFat]

...when you “eye-up” CGI trees, for collection, in Pixar movies.

 

[Rivian]

Happened to me last year when I had shovels, saw zaw, big black trash bags and duck tape.

I scared an old lady in a similar way

 

[Forsoothe!]

Officer, officer, ... that man over there....

 

[HorseloverFat]

Just bring the kids... INSTANTLY non-threatening.

Well.. I guess it depends on how threatening your kids are.

 

[BobbyLane]

You know youre a bonsai guy when you leave deep pits in all the pots at the nursery

 

[Rivian]

Just bring the kids... INSTANTLY non-threatening.

Yeah or a dog
I find that people get easily scared of adult men when they cant write them off in their mind as obvious jogger, dog walker, gardener or some other good reason to be where you are.
So its best to give them a reason to rationalise you away so everyone can stay calm and not scared or awkward, lol.

 

[Dave704]

When your co-workers in China declare you cannot be allowed to go shopping without adult supervision, because they had to arrange shipping for 10 pallets of Bonsai stuff to the US.

 

[sorce]

When your co-workers in China declare you cannot be allowed to go shopping without adult supervision, because they had to arrange shipping for 10 pallets of Bonsai stuff to the US.

We'll send you adult supervision!

Sorce

 

[Forsoothe!]

When your co-workers in China declare you cannot be allowed to go shopping without adult supervision, because they had to arrange shipping for 10 pallets of Bonsai stuff to the US.

That sounds like a money-making venture?

 

[AlainK]

I think I already posted that from a very famous French cartoonist. Note the way "bonzai" is written, a common mistake among non-specialists here, prob. a confusion with "banzai!".

I'll just translate the last frame : "You lousy brats! I fordid you to climb the trees!"

 

[Cadillactaste]

Total respect...repotting a forest in the rain for a win @ghues !

 

[Danny Tuckey]

When you're walking along with your friend who is talking to you but you're just looking at the nearby trees not paying attention to what he's saying.

 

[Wulfskaar]

Just bring the kids... INSTANTLY non-threatening.

Well.. I guess it depends on how threatening your kids are.

 

[HorseloverFat]

When you're walking along with your friend who is talking to you but you're just looking at the nearby trees not paying attention to what he's saying.

Sorry.. what was that?

I was “base-gazing”