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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

Pikesville, Maryland

I’m lucky that my wife

and mother are very

close. I realized just

how close the time

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

Lakewood, Ohio

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

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

Reader’s Digest

24 june 2019 Cartoon by Jerry Fisher

LIFE

in these

United States