A little boy in my infant class came into school and told me he could spell his mum’s name.
“M-U-M,” he said prou ...read more
Here’s an ad for a hedge clipper that I had to read twice: “A built-in safety switch prevents accidental starting, and blade ...read more
My newly retired husband was watching as I went about my daily routine. I vacuumed, cleaned, ironed and sorted the laundry, and ...read more
My mother moved towns and went for her first visit to her new doctor’s surgery. The doctor looked through her extensive medica ...read more
My friend, who’s a nurse in an emergency department, was telling me about a patient who arrived with a gash in his head. Appar ...read more
When the coffeemaker went on the fritz, I joked that maybe it was the fault of the cockroaches. Our office manager was not amuse ...read more
What are the wildest things national park guides contend with? Questions from tourists, like these:
– Would the li ...read more
I phoned a local restaurant to ask if it was on the north or south side of Main Street. The person on the other end answered, ...read more
My husband was a tour guide for a 16th-century castle just near Leuchars airfield in Fife, Scotland. One day, while speaking to ...read more
I ordered a foot-long roll from a sandwich bar in town for myself and my friends. There were four of us, so we decided one long ...read more
My husband recently answered his work phone and heard someone start a familiar pitch about upgrading his computer software. A fe ...read more
We took our two teenage sons to a restaurant that was packed with fans watching a sporting event on TV. The harassed waitress to ...read more
I was in a couple’s home trying to fix their internet connection. The husband called out to his wife in the other room for the ...read more
A young man recently came to the clinic I work at for an MRI and was put into the machine by an equally young, blond technologis ...read more
