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• 1.Point of No Return
• My husband ordered home delivery of our local newspaper. Because we live in rural area where no street numbers are used, I was concerned that the carr...
• 2.Do Me a Favor
• The mechanic was very busy when I took my car in for repairs, so I settled down in the waiting room with a book I'd brought along. The mechanic was in...
• 3.Good Thing He Has You
• While I was talking to a parent of one of my third-grade students, another teacher walked by. The mother, remarking how beautiful the woman was, said,...
• 4.The Very Last Birthday
• When I was approaching 50, I announced to my three grown children that I no longer wanted to celebrate my birthday and that they could phone me instea...
• 5.Wouldn't You Know
• I accompanied my eight-month-pregnant wife to her monthly checkup . We boarded the hospital's elevator to go to the appropriate floor. The only other ...
• 6.A Call from a Frog
• A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline and is told, You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you . The frog ...
• 7.The Judge's Pistol
• One day Mel Martin stopped by the chambers of a judge with whom he had lunch appointment. As his friend changed from robe jacket, Martin noticed a shi...
• 8.The Shepherd and the Bureaucrat
• A bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending a large flock. The bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked the shepherd, If I can ...
• 9.The Long and Short of It
• Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inc...
• 10.You Let Me Search Quite
• Once upon a time, there was a man who always forgot things. One day, he went out with his little son. He was so happy that he put the son ride his nec...