Editors Humour.
Fred was not thrilled with the idea of letting his clueless 13-year-old son babysit his younger sisters, even though he begged him to. "What about a fire?" Fred asked, referring to his No. 1 concern. "Dad," he said, rolling his eyes, "I'm a Boy Scout. I know how to start a fire."
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At age 70, Mitch's grandfather bought his first riding lawn mower. "This thing is great," he bragged to my brother. "It took me only an hour and a half to mow the lawn. It used to take your grandmother two days to do it all!"
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When my father ran out of gas, he called my mother to pick him up in her car. They went to a gas station, filled a gas can, and returned to his car. After a few minutes, he got into her car again.
"We need to go back to the gas station," he said.
"One gallon wasn't enough?" she asked.
"It would have been if I'd put it in the right car."
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Brevity is next to confusion in the insurance business.
When a client died, her daughter told our agency that she would cancel the home policy the following week, once her mother's belongings were removed. Simple, right? Here's the note that was placed in the client's file:
"Deceased will call next week to cancel moving her things out."
