Overnight Flight

"Jes Chickens"*

*Two Mississippians are walking toward each other, and
one is carrying a sack. When they meet, one says, "Hey
Tommy Ray, whatcha got in th' bag?"

"Jes' some chickens."

"If I guesses how many they is, kin I have one?"

"Shoot, if ya guesses right, I'll give you both of 'em!"

"OK. Ummmmm...five?"

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"Overnight Flight"*

*Following an overnight flight to meet my father
at his latest military assignment, my mother,
eight noisy and shoving siblings, and I arrived
at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany.

"Do you have any weapons or illegal drugs in
your possession?" the customs agent asked my weary mother.

"Sir," she said while separating my brother and
me, "if I had either of those items, I would have used them by now."
Received on Mon Oct 12 08:18:01 2009