Helping me sort clothes into "save" and "give away" piles, my six-year-old daughter came across a garter belt. "What's this?" she asked. "It's a garter belt," I said. Seeing that meant nothing to her, I added, "It's for holding up stockings." "Ah," she said, carefully placing it in the "save" pile, "we'll use it next Christmas Eve." ~~~~~~~~~~ A cop pulls over a man for speeding. Thinking quickly, the man says to the officer, "It's an emergency - my mother's in the back seat. She took an overdose of reducing pills." Checking the back seat, the oficer shook his head. "But I don't see anyone back there, sir." "Oh, no!" cried the man - "I'm too late!" |