1. In the courtroom where I worked as a court reporter, a dentist was called as a witness. He took the oath a few from my desk and I noticed his uprised arm was trembling, apparently from nerveousness. After he finished I could not resist saying softly, “sit down doctor,this won’t hurt a bit” J
2. For the first time my four-year-old daughter Kelsey was coming to my office to have me a dental hygienist,clean teeth. She was accompanied by her grandmother. When they came in, I greeted them warmly, seated Kelsey and as usual put on my gloves, googles, and mask. About ten minutes into the procedure, she got scared and cried, “I want my mommy!” quickly pulled of my mask and said “I am your mommy” without saying, my daughter yelled back “then I want my granny”! J
1. When I was 28, I was teaching English to high school freshman in a school where occasionally the faculty and staff were allowed to dress down. One of those day I donned a sweatshirt and slacks. A student come in and his eyes widened.”Wow!” he exclaimed. “ you should wear clothes like that every day, you look twenty, maybe even thirty youngers”! J
2. It so rare area to be offered a meal on airlines these days that I was surprised to hear the flight attendant ask the man sitting in front of me, “would you like dinner?” what are my choices?” he responded,”yes or no” he said J
3. when a woman I know turned 99 years old, I went to her birthday party and took some photos. A few days later, I brought the whole batch of prints to her so she could choose her favourites. “Good Lord” she said as she was flipping through them, “I look like I am hundred” J
4. Recently a young woman came into my father’s insurance office with her new born twins. Dad asked her if she ever had any trouble telling them apart. She gave him a funny look before responding “No I have not had any problem, this Benjamin and this is Elizabeth
5. My boy friend and I met online, we’d been dating for over a year, I introduced hans to my uncle who was fascinated by and the fact that we met over internet. He asked hans what kind of line he had used to pick me up. Ever the geek, hans naively replied “I just used a
regural 56K modem” J
6. My 12 years old daughter asked me “mum, do you have a baby picture of yourself?” I need it for a school project” I gave her one without thinking to ask what the project was. A few days later, I was in her classroom fo a parent-teacher meeting when I noticed my face pinned to a mural the students had created. The title of their project was “The Oldest Thing in My House”J
7. My husband was a navy chaptain deployed in the Persian gulft at the end of Desert Storm. I did everything possible to ensure that our three young children wouldnot be worried about their father being in danger. It was not always easy, but I knew I’d succeded when someone at church asked our three year old where his dad was. My son replied “he is in Persia
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