Let’s Laugh a Little
By Blue Rose on Tuesday, 18 of August , 2009 at 7:49 pm
Driving my three-year-old daughter to day care before work, I noticed a family of dead raccoons on the road. I quickly sped past, hoping she wouldn’t spot them. No such luck.
“Mummy, what was that?”
“Some wood must have fallen from a truck,” I fibbed.
“Oh,” she said. “Is that what killed all those raccoons?”
We’d just moved to a new city, and I was working nights in a call center. Parent-teacher interviews were coming up and my daughter, Bethany, who was in primary 2, took it upon herself to explain to her teacher why I couldn’t be there.
“My mummy can’t come tonight,” Bethany said, “because she works nights. She’s a call girl.”
Marking the register of my year II from group, I asked if anyone knew what had happen to a boy who had been absent for some days.
“I think he’s got the flu, sir,” said his friend.
“What do you mean you ‘think’ he’s got the flu?”
“That’s what I thought he said when I saw him in the night club last night.”
A mathematician got an earful from his wife after wandering home at 3 am. “You’re late!” she yelled. “You said you’d be home by 11:45!”
“Actually,” the mathematician replied coolly, “I said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.”
The linguist’s husband caught his wife in the arms of another man. “Susan,” he said, “I’m surprised!”
“No, I’m surprised,” she corrected him. “You’re astonished.”
My sister-in-law, a professional storyteller, was in Europe speaking at various libraries. Later, she called her mother and told her that’s she’d just given a speech for 250 librarians.
“Great,” said her mother. “And how much is that in American money?”
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Category: Positive Reading
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