Subject: Borrowing a Ladder
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 17:38:17 EDT
"Borrowing a Ladder"
My next-door neighbor and I frequently borrow
things from each other. Not long ago, when I
requested his ladder, he told me he had lent
it to his son. Recalling a saying my grandmother
used to repeat, I recited, "You should never lend
anything to your kids, because you will never
get it back."
With that, he responded, "Tell you the truth, it's
not even my ladder. It's my dad's."
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"Matching Clothes"
I come from a large family, five sisters and three brothers.
My sisters and I were looking through the family photo
album one day. Picture after picture, we were all dressed
in matching clothes. I asked my mother why she dressed
us all alike, right down to the baby.
She explained, "When we had just four children, I dressed
you alike so we wouldn't lose any of you. Then," she added,
looking at the pictures in the album, "When the other four
came along, I started dressing you alike so we won't pick
up any that don't belong to us."
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