A man observed a woman in the grocery store with a three year old girl in her
basket. As they passed the cookie section, the child asked for cookies and
her mother told her "no." The little
girl immediately began to whine and fuss, and the mother said quietly, "Now
Ellen, we just have half of the aisles left to go through; don't be upset.
It won't be long."
He passed the Mother again in the candy aisle. Of course, the little girl
began to shout for candy. When she was told she couldn't have any, she began
to cry. The mother said, "There,
there, Ellen, don't cry. Only two more aisles to go, and then we'll be
checking out."
The man again happened to be behind the pair at the check-out, where the
little girl immediately began to clamor for gum and burst into a terrible
tantrum upon discovering there would be no gum purchased today. The mother
patiently said, "Ellen, we'll be through this check out stand in five
minutes, and then you can go home and have a nice nap."
The man followed them out to the parking lot and stopped the woman to
compliment her. "I couldn't help noticing how patient you were with little
Ellen..."
The mother broke in, "My little girl's name is Tammy... I'm Ellen."
Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by
giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to
make it look as if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw him
she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor came over and, finding what she
thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she
was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr Fen
kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she
dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr Fen was acquitted of manslaughter
and he and his wife were reconciled. |
