Tea Party

"Calming the Teacher"*

*When I was a kid, my dad and I had a running
joke. If anyone asked what he did for a living,
I always said, "He's a sports mechanic. He fixes
boxing matches and horse races."

Once I answered a teacher this way. She flipped
out and summoned my parents. Dad calmed her
down by explaining it was a joke.

"So what do you do?" she asked.

Dad, a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company said,
"I sell drugs."

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"Tea Party"*

*One day a mother was out and the dad was in charge.
The little one was maybe one and a half years old.
Someone had given her a little tea set as a gift and
it was one other favorite toys.

Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening
news when she brought Daddy a little cup of 'tea',
which was just water.

After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such
yummy tea, Mom came home. Dad made her wait in
the living room to watch the toddler bring him a cup
of tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!'

Mom waited, and sure enough, here comes baby down
the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches
him drink it up, then says, 'Did it ever occur to you that
the only place that baby can reach to get water is the toilet?'
Received on Sat Jan 31 07:40:37 2009