ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-March2018

Life’s Like That

SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE

38 | March• 2018

Would that we were all as tenacious as the

enterprising fellow in this 60-year-old letter

from March 1958.

From the Archives

My husband, a vacuum cleaner salesman, ha

just had a major operation and of course was

permitted to get out of bed in the hospital. Tw

later, the telephone rang at home. I was bow

when I heard his voice because I knew there

telephone in the hospital room.

“I sneaked down the hall to call because it

important,” he explained. “Please bring my o

book with you – I’ve just sold a vacuum to th

man in the next bed.”

SUBMITTED BY THELMA B. ANDERSON

she could overcome. So she drew a

picture of herself teaching me how

to use the TV remote.

@MAUGHAMMOM ON TWITTER

LIES WE TELL OUR KIDS

„ We got our daughter to eat fish by

calling it Argentinian chicken.

„ Our parents used to tell my only

brother and me that we used to

have another brother who turned

into a mushroom from not taking a

FACE VALUE

During my 55th high school class
reunion, I spotted an old friend.
“Bill!” I shouted. “You look exactly
the same as you did in high school.”
He nodded. “Now I know why I
never got a date in high school.”

SUBMITTED BY PATTY CHANDLEE

TECHNOPHOBE
My six year old’s school assignment
was to draw a challenge she thought

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