ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-April2018

38 | April• 2018

Life’s Like hat

SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE

In our increasingly connected world, this 70-year-old

letter from April 1948 seems impossibly quaint.

Fro es

MymotherlivesinasmallArizonatownofperhaps500inhabitantsand

adozentelephones.Shehasn’tone,sowhenmysisterhadherirstbaby

Iputinaperson-to-personcallforMotherthroughthetelephoneoice.

“It’lltakeawhiletogetMrsQuinnhere,”myoperatorwastold.“Herplace

isabouthalfamiledowntheroad.”

“Willtherebeachargeformessengerservice?”askedmyoperator.

“Noindeed,ma’am,nochargeatall.I’lljustireashotdowninthat

direction and when Mrs Quinn looks up this way to see what’s

going o ’ ”

ERSON

CAS

Four year old:“Mummy,

you’re just like a Disney movie.

We should play pretend.”

Me:“Aww! Sure!”

Four year old:

“YoucanbetheBeast.”

Me:“...”

Four year old:

“Or the fat sea witch!”

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SOAP DIS
Afriendofmine,notrenownedasa
goodcook,boughtapreparedpack
of beef and chopped vegetables and
hadproceededtofryitinherwok
when bubbles appeared.
Shewascompletelybaleduntil
sherealisedthatheroilbottle
happened to be standing next to the
washingupliquid.
SUBMITTED BY JAN CUNNINGHAM

APR

1948