Marcel Marceau, Drivers, A bad pun, Little Girls and Marriage
Marcel Marceau passed away on Saturday, September 22nd, 2007. A man with a great sense of humor, I’m sure he would appreciate that items from his estate will be sold at silent auction.
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Drivers.
One of my co-workers got a speeding ticket and was attending a defensive-driving course to have points erased from her license. The instructor, a poice officer, emphasized that being on time was crucial and that the classroom doors would be locked when each session began.
Just after one class started, someone knocked on the locked door. The officer opened it and asked, “Why are you late?”
The student replied, “I was trying not to get another ticket.”
The officer let him in.
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Bad Pun Alert:
A pirate walks into a bar wearing a roll of paper towels on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum.
The bartender asks, “Why are you wearing paper towels?”
“Arrr…” says the pirate. “I’ve got a bounty on me head!”
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Here’s a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some construction workers that makes you believe that we CAN make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time…
A young family moved into a house, next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.
The young family’s 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers. Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the two dollar “pay” she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age.
The little girl proudly replied, “I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us.”
“My goodness gracious,” said the teller, “and will you be working on the house again this week, too?”
The little girl replied, “I will if those a******* at Home Depot ever deliver the f***ing sheet rock…”
Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.
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Parting Shot:
A couple had been married for 60 years and had raised a brood of 14 children and were blessed with 28 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren.
When asked the secret for staying together all that time, the wife replies, “Many years ago we made a promise to each other: the first one to pack up and leave has to take all the kids.”