Get a Job One day shortly after I had come home from college, my father was outside doing yard work. He found a baby bird under a tree and assumed it ...
A Brain Transplant The Brain Surgeon was about to perform a brain transplant. You have your choice of two brains, he told the patient, For $1000 you c...
A Business Trip On a business trip to India, a colleague of mine arrived at the airport in Dilhi. He took a taxi to his hotel, where he was greeted b...
The Same DutiesA retired four-star general ran into his former orderly, also retired, in a Manhattan bar and spent the rest of the evening persuading ...
In a small pretty village in Notting ham shire there formerly lived a respectable Squire， who excelled all his friends in amusements athletic， and who...
I'm a police officer When my husband, Jack, was a police officer, he once approached a home guarded by two ferocious dogs. They lunged at the scre...
The Name of a Poet Our teacher was telling us about a new system of memory training being used in some schools today． It works like this， she said．Sup...
A Tough Teacher A school teacher friend of mine injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. On his first day ...
Five Months OlderThe Second World War had begun, and John wanted to join the army, but he was only 16 years old, and boys were allowed to join only if...
fat man and a skinny man were arguing about who was the more polite.The skinny man said he was more polite because he always tipped his hat to ladies....