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Do you have
a friend who seems to always attract odd happenings? This happens frequently
when I’m out somewhere with my mother.
While out
shopping at a local department store, a woman approached my mother and I. She
asked, “Can I tell you ladies a joke?” My mother and I paused a moment. I looked around to see if were on some hidden
camera show. Then I thought maybe were the millionth customer and at the end of
the joke confetti would fall from the ceiling and we would be awarded a prize.
Being the
friendly people that we are, mom and I listened to the woman. When she finished
her joke, I gave a little chuckle. I looked over at my mother and she was
laughing hard. The joke was not that funny, mom’s laughter was a bit extreme,
but I guess she didn’t want to woman to feel odd for randomly stopping us.
Hmmm.
Yard Work
Let me start
by saying I’m a fan of the children’s book, If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. The premise of the story is
that when you give someone something they will want something else. And that’s
exactly what happened when my mom’s young neighbor asked to do yard work for
her.
My mother
told the young guy he could rake leaves for her and he was ecstatic. Once he
was done raking leaves, he asked my mother for something to drink. She gave him
something to drink, then the neighbor asked if my mom could drop him off across
town.
In this
situation the proverbial mouse wanted a cookie, a glass of milk, a piece of
cheese and anything else he could get.
Keeping down body odor
It’s always
a good feeling being clean, but I think my teen son has taken being clean to a
new level. Every time I ventured out to the store my son said he needed
deodorant. A few times I purchased deodorant as my son asked.
I went into my son’s room recently to open up
the windows for spring cleaning and discovered his stash of deodorant. He didn’t
need new deodorant every time he asked for it. In fact, he already had 5 or 6,
maybe even 10.
After this
discovery, I told my son, “You should not have armpit odor for months. There’s
no excuse.”
In what odd
places have you found humor lately?
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