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• 1.63.A Hasty Interruption
• The fine-furniture store where I work has been in business since the 1920s.Recently I received a call from a woman who wanted to replace some chairs f...
• 2.64.It's a Puzzlement
• The fine-furniture store where I work has been in business since the 1920s.Recently I received a call from a woman who wanted to replace some chairs f...
• 3.65. A Small Surprise
• When his wife was expecting their third child, a father decided to tell his two sons, ages seven and nine, the facts of life. He checked out several b...
• 4.66. The Cat and the Saucer
• An antiques collector was passing a small shop when he noticed a cat on the sidewalk out front, licking milk from a saucer. The man immediately realiz...
• 5.67. Long Life
• A man was selling medicines at a fair. At first he sold bottles of a cure for colds for just a dollar a bottle. Many people wanted to buy it and the m...
• 6.68. Diet Tribe
• Mom was very proud that she'd lost ten pounds. On the way to the store with my husband and me she talked of little else. We dropped her off in the lin...
• 7.69. Stunning Reply
• My five-year-old son was not picking up his toys while I was preparing dinner as I had asked him. When I inquired why he wasn't doing his chores, he s...
• 8.43. 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...
• 9.70.Senior Class
• During the doctor's periodic visit to my elderly mother, I told him that Mother would be celebrating her 98th birthday in few days. Delighted by the n...
• 10.71. The Young Man at the Wheel
• My infant daughter began crying as I drove home from the store, and since she was harnessed to her safety seat in the back, I couldn't console her. St...