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SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE40 | October• 2018
he former owner of our house
was moving out of state, so he
was delighted when we asked
him to leave behind anything
that he didn’t want.
Besides a lawnmower and
several small tables, there
was one item that had us
bewildered. It was a board, one
metre square, with two legs onCHECK THIS OUT
After sending several emails to the
wrong people, plus making silly
spelling mistakes, I knew I needed
to get my eyes checked.
his fact became all the more
obvious when one day I screamed at
my friend to stop the car, leaping out
to help a little old man bent over at the
side of the road.
‘He’ turned out to be nothing more
than a large, freestanding rubbish bin.
But the inal straw was when
I followed the wrong person around
the supermarket, putting things
in his trolley.
I’m pleased to say I’m now sporting
an appropriate pair of spectacles!
SUBMITTED BY KATH SHARMANIN WAIT
After conirming her pregnancy,
my friend told her four-year-old
daughter about the new brother orOCT
1968his anecdote from October 1968,
exactly 50 years ago, shows that a neighbourly spirit
of give and take was very much in evidence.one end, none on the other.
I was about to toss it out
when I spotted a note taped
underneath: “When you want
to paint in the stairwell, this
its on the fourth step to make
a level platform. hen you go
across the street and borrow
Schmidt’s ladder.”
SUBMITTED BY DON LITTLEFrom the Archives