If you have done any traveling, you know the crazy situations you can find yourself in. The author has traveled to 113 countries on all seven continents. Feeling your way through different customs and cultures, you often end up laughing at your embarrassing and comical situations. Woodrow Kroll gained a reputation on radio as a uniquely understandable teacher of God's Word. Much of his success was due to the humor woven throughout his teaching. BEFORE THEY BRING THE BACKHOE reflects on his sixty years of Christian ministry and the precarious and hilarious situations he found himself in. For example, once his brother and he had preached at a church in New Hampshire, but a snowstorm stranded them and they had to sleep on a hide-a-bed in the pastor's living room with a cat. Unfortunately, through the night, his brother and he rolled together and suffocated the cat, until Woodrow revived it. He recalls a heated bartering session with an Arab shopkeeper in Jerusalem who, when the shouting and haggling were over, the shopkeeper kissed Woodrow on both cheeks and said, "I like you." You have to read "You Touch That You're A Dead Man." Funny stuff. And, in the tiny town where he grew up, their only bridge was stolen. These 201 stories range from mildly humorous to knee-smacking hilarious. They are the kind of stories you will want to phone a friend and read to them.