Reader's Digest - USA (2019-06)

Alexander Graham Udene

It was 1949, and we’d just had our

first telephone installed in our home.

Overcome with excitement, my

13-year-old brother, Udene, made his

first call to a friend. The phone rang,

his friend picked up, and Udene excit-

edly blurted, “This is me, is that you?”

—Neida Darley Jacksonville, Florida

Let’s Hear It for the Only Child

✦As an only child, I’m always

excited when someone wants to

know my opinion on something.

—@ericacbarnett

✦The saddest part of being an

only child is that when you grow up,

you’re not even a child anymore.

You’re just only.

—@nedostup

✦Mom keeps saying I’m her favorite

daughter ... I’m an only child.

—@DiamondeHelper

Tricks

We Played

on Our

Siblings

✦I placed a weather

balloon in my sister’s

closet and filled it with

fine glitter. It was so big,

the only way to get it out

through the door was to

“MY SISTER ASKED IF

I STOLE HER SWEATER.

Uh, yeah. Who else

would’ve stolen it? You

think a burglar broke in

and was like, ‘Cute top!’ ”

—@laurenreeves

pop it. Every single

article of clothing she

owned was coated in

glitter for over a month.

—reddit.com

✦I love my younger

sister, but that doesn’t

mean we always got

along. One day, she

was being a pest while I

was making us sand-

wiches. What she didn’t

realize was that I had

swapped her tuna fish for

cat food. Frankly, I was

surprised how much she

enjoyed her tuna fish

sandwich.

—Charlotte Wilcox

fulton, new york

✦Like most

teenage girls,

my sister had

about a gazillion

posters in her

room of boy

bands, actors, etc.

One day, I went in

there while she

was out and turned every

single poster upside

down. It took her a few

months to finally bother

changing them all back.

—reddit.com

Reader’s Digest Humor

84 june 2019