READER’S DIGESTday, our neighbour found a potted
plant on the paving near our garden
gate so she brought it in to us.
“I think the wind caught it” she said.
“No, it wasn’t the wind,” my husband
retorted, “it was trying to escape.”
JEENA SUMNER, London
I READ ALOUD THE RESULTS OF A
SURVEY which studied whether men
or women use more words in a day.
The outcome said women use 28,000
while men only use 14,000. I added
that it was probably because women
always have to repeat themselves
because men don't listen.
My husband then turned around
and said, “What?”
LOIS JONES, Denbighshire
I GOT A TEXT MESSAGE FROM MY
FATHER, which read “I've got
something to tell you. Are you sitting
down? Your brother was adopted.”
I nearly fell off my chair and was
just beginning to think how
insensitive he was to tell me in a text.
But thankfully he sent another, “Oh I
hate predictive text... Your brother
has been accepted by a university!”
SALI THOMAS, Denbighshire
MY DAUGHTER RECENTLY TOLD
me about how her primary school
teacher had brought in some food
to make a French lesson more visual
and interesting.
She recalled that they had
baguettes and pain au chocolat and
then paused for a while.
When I asked what she was
thinking about she said, “I can't
remember the French word for
croissant.” STUART APPLEBY, DevonWHEN I PLAYED GAMES WITH MY
son, I used to let him win. But then
I decided he should learn that in life
things don’t always go your way. So,
I won the next game which clearly
bothered him. While in a long queue
in the supermarket later that day he
said in a loud voice,
“Don't beat me again, Mummy,
I don't like it.”
I got some very suspicious looks!
AVA JACOBS, CheshireMY MOTHER-IN-LAW WASN’T
SMOKING and I commented on this
thinking that perhaps she was giving
up. But she said she just had a bad
cold and chose not to smoke when
she was sick.
My father-in-law then piped up
saying, “Well in that case, you would
probably live a lot longer if you got ill
more often!”
MICHAELA BRYN, MerseysideOVER THE YEARS MY HUSBAND
has become increasingly hard of
hearing yet is in denial about it.
When I challenged him about it
recently, his response was,
“It’s not that I can’t hear you, it’s
just that I don’t know what you are
saying!” LIZ TUBBY, NorfolkJULY 2019 • 131