Reader’s Digest India – July 2019

he got home, and he

was inconsolable.

Nothing I said helped.

After a while, I asked,

“Why are you crying

so much?”

Arching his back,

he shouted, “I wanted

to flush!”

—Judith Parnett

I’m lucky that my wife

and mother are very

close. I realized just

how close when I

drove my mother to her

doctor, which my wife

usually does. When the

doctor came into the

room, my own dear

mother introduced me

as her “daughter-in-

law’s husband”.

—Andrew Thompson

If the power goes

out across North

America, don’t panic.

My wife has enough

candles stored away

for everyone.

— @squirrel4wkgn

My six-year-old loved

his pet fish. He

watched and fed it

faithfully, morning

and night. But one day

while he was in school,

his fish died, so I

flushed it down the

toilet. I told him when

LIFE’S

Like That

64 july 2019

“So here’s the thing, Dan ... When a guy eats less than me, it’s a deal-breaker.”

Cartoon by Jerry Fisher