Frequent hand-washing in my job as a medical technologist and the harsh Alaskan weather combined to give me very dry skin. One night as I prepared for...
A teacher was always so involved in the text being studied that he never looked up . He would call on a student for translation and explanation, and-w...
My cooking has always been the target of family jokes. One evening, as I prepared dinner a bit too quickly, the kitchen filled with smoke and the smok...
A friend of mine noticed a man staggering about in the Times Square subway station. A well-dressed Wall Street type, his coat was unbuttoned, a briefc...
An impoverished graduate student at Clemson University in South Carolina, I was excited when my father informed me that he had bought me a car. Hardly...
A highway patrol officer stopped a speeding motorist. "Don't you know what the blinking lights and siren mean?" he demanded."Yes, s...
Three men were sitting on a park bench. The one in the middle was reading a newspaper; the others were pretending to fish. They baited imaginary hooks...
The husband complained that his wife always cooked the same dish.One day, the husband got home and asked his wife, "My dear, what will we eat tod...
One day, John was back home after work. He found that his wife was shaking their daughter who was only half a year old. She said "Da-Dy" to ...
A boy cried to his mother, "All the children make fun of me. They say I have a big head.""Don't listen to them," his mother sa...