ELDERLY
While
working for an organization that delivers lunches to
elderly
shut-ins,
I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds.
She
was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old
age,
particularly
the canes, walkers, and wheelchairs. One day I found her
staring
at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself
for
the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned
and
whispered,
'The tooth fairy will never believe this!'
DRESS-UP
A
little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she
saw
her
dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear
that
suit.'
'And why not, darling?' he asked. She replied, 'You know that
it
always
gives you a headache the next morning.'
DEATH
While
walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our
minister
heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his
collar wilt.
Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates
had found a dead
robin. Feeling that proper burial should be
performed, they had secured
a small box and cotton batting, then
dug a hole and made ready for the
disposal of the deceased. The
minister's son was chosen to say the
appropriate prayers and
with sonorous dignity intoned his version of
what he thought his
father always said: 'Glory be unto the Faaather, and
unto the
Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.' (I want this line used at
my
funeral!)
SCHOOL
A
little girl had just finished her first week of school. 'I'm
just
wasting my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I
can't write,
and they won't let me talk!'
BIBLE
A
little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as
he
fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out
of the
Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he
saw was an old
leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
'Mama, look what I
found,' the boy called out. 'What have you
got there, dear?' she asked.
With astonishment in the young
boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's
Adam's underwear!'