A salesman telephoned a household and a four-year-old answered.<\/p>\n
Salesman: May I speak to your mother?<\/p>\n
Child: She is not here.<\/p>\n
Salesman: Well, is anyone else there?<\/p>\n
Child: My sister<\/p>\n
Salesman: O.K., fine. May I speak to her?<\/p>\n
Child: I guess so.<\/p>\n
There was a long silence on the other phone. Then:<\/p>\n
Child: Hello?<\/p>\n
Salesman: It\u2019s you. I thought you were going to call your sister.<\/p>\n
Child: I did. The trouble is: I can\u2019t get her out of the playpen.<\/p>\n
I pointed to two old drunks sitting across the bar from us and said to my friend, “That’s us in 10 years”.<\/p>\n
He said “That’s a mirror, you idiot!\u201d<\/p>\n
My friend’s husband is always telling her that housekeeping would be a snap if only she would organize her time better.<\/p>\n
Recently, he had a chance to put his theory into practice while his wife was away. When I popped in one evening to see how he was managing, he crowed, “I made a cake, frosted it, washed the kitchen windows, cleaned all the cupboards, scrubbed the kitchen floor, walls and ceiling and even had a bath.”<\/p>\n
I was about to concede that perhaps he was a better manager than his wife, when he added sheepishly, “When I was making the chocolate frosting, I forgot to turn off the mixer before taking the beaters out of the bowl, so I had to do all the rest.”<\/p>\n
A salesman telephoned a household and a four-year-old answered. Salesman: May I speak to your mother? Child: She is not here. Salesman: Well, is anyone else there? Child: My sister Salesman: O.K., fine. May I speak to her? Child: I guess so. There was a long silence on the other phone. Then: Child: Hello? Salesman: … <\/p>\n