All in a Day’s Work, June 2007

Freelance newspaper writers don’t get nearly as much attention as writers with regular bylines. So I was delighted when I finally got some notice. It was at the bank, and I was depositing a stack of cheques.

“Wow,” said the teller, reading off the names of the publishers from the cheques. “You must deliver a lot of papers.”
Meagan Francis

When a nun collapsed in the sales rep’s office at our company, the rep ran to her manager.

“Two nuns walked into the sales office, and one of them fainted!” she yelled breathlessly.

Unfazed, the manager just looked at her and carried on sipping his coffee.

“Well,” said the rep, “aren’t you going to do anything?”

“I’m waiting for the punchline,” he replied.
Donna Caplan

After several months at sea, my brother and his naval colleagues were granted a short period of shore leave. My brother was so thrilled at the prospect of finally putting his feet on dry land that, as his ship came into port, he was running and jumping around the decks.

Unfortunately he failed to notice a low bulkhead and leapt into it, knocking himself out.

He regained consciousness, but in the ship’s sick bay several days later – by which time the vessel was back at sea.
Christine Burford