LONG-WINDED DRIVING We were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for the Christmas holidays. Since they live in Illinois and we live in Minnesota, the drive down can become quite long, especially if you are only five years old. We had been in the car for several hours, when Rachel, then five, asked the inevitable …
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LONG TERM DRIVING A little boy was riding along with his father from New Mexico to Colorado. They were traveling 250 miles to go fishing. After about fifty miles the excited son asked his father if they were almost there. The father answered that they had a ways to go yet. Fifty miles later. . …
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THE RIGHT TIME TO FLY Some years ago several friends and I had the opportunity to visit Death Valley. On the final day of our visit we hiked Wildrose Peak – a mountain rising nearly 9000 feet above the valley floor. While looking over the panoramic view below us, we noticed something near the valley …
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A GOOD REASON TO WAIT Okay, if you insist, here’s another one: “What were you doing when the police arrived?” the judge asked the defendant. “Waiting, sir.” “For what?” “For money.” “Who was supposed to give you money?” “The man I was waiting for.” “Why was he going to give you money?” “For waiting.” “Enough …
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EXPECTING HIS COMING In the 1987 NCAA Regional Finals, LSU was leading Indiana by eight points with only a few minutes left in the game. As is often the case with a team in the lead, LSU began playing a different ball game. The television announcer pointed out that the LSU players were beginning to …
KEEP KNOCKING A Christian lady once dreamed that she died and went to heaven. As an angel was showing her around, she saw a stack of boxes in the corner of a room–and they had her name on them. She asked the angel what they were–and he told her to take a look in them. …
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DEATH FROM WAITING An elderly man went to the doctor’s office for his 2 PM appointment. After three hours of waiting he got up to leave. As he passed the nurse, he told her: “I guess I’ll go home and just die a natural death.”
QUARANTINE CREATIVITY Years ago a French engineer, Monsieur Ferdinand De Lesseps, was refused permission to leave his ship on the Mediterranean Sea for a period of time, because he was supposed to be in quarantine. This was tedious for him because he was an active individual. But he used his time well during the enforced …
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CATCH OF THE DAY A sad-looking little boy had been waiting quite some time for his order of the catch of the day to be filled. Finally, the waiter showed up and said, “Your catch of the day order will be ready in just a few minutes now.” The little boy brightened up a bit …
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HAPPINESS NOW People seem to believe that they have an inalienable right to be happy — “I want what I want and I want it now.” No one wants to wait for anything and, for the most part, no one has to anymore. Waiting is interpreted as pain… People walk into my office and say …
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TILLS AND AFTERS ARE TOUGH A young child is explaining to her family how well she is doing as she learns to tell time: “I know my ‘o’clocks now, but I’m still having trouble with my ’tills’ and my ‘afters.’”