One day, I was trying to get my
seven-year-old’s attention. When he
finally turned to me, I asked, “Didn’t you
hear me calling you?” He responded,
“Not the first two times.” —reddit.coma mistake. “It’s just
something coaches
do,” I said. “It’s not
personal.”
His response
was hard to argue
with: “If it’s not
personal, then why
do they use your
name?”
—Laura McKinney
Ruston, LouisianaAd spotted in my
weekly bargain
bulletin: “FOR SALE:
Crestview cemetery
plot, $200, so I don’t
have to spend all
eternity beside my ex!”
—Anthony Cialella
New Castle, PennsylvaniaWhen my 85-year-old
father was in the hos-
pital, his doctor, trying
to determine Dad’s
mental state, asked,
“What gets you up in
the morning?”
My father shrugged.
“Probably the sameOur son was upset
that his baseball coach
yelled whenever he
or a teammate made“Perhaps you’ve heard of me. I discovered a little thing called fire.”16 april 2019 cartoon by Robert Erskine
LIFE
in these
United States