Jake was an angry young man who hated everybody. He also hated shopping. He was walking angrily around in a large department store, when he spotted a cashier handing a little boy holding a new doll back some money. The boy couldn’t have been more than 5 years old. Jake heard the cashier say, “Sorry, Hon, but you just don’t …
A fragile and frail senior citizen stood in the line at the post office, a line that wound its way almost to the front door. A concerned customer behind her said, as he pointed to a stamp machine built into the far wall, “Ma’am, you must be getting very tired. Did you know there’s a stamp machine over there in …
Speech is an art. When one knows what, when and how to talk, such a person will surely be successful in life, as demonstrated in the following story: As King Haroun and Queen Zubayda were sitting in their palace one day, a fisherman selling fresh fish appeared before them. The king decided to buy a fish, and gave the fisherman …
Two friends were walking through the forest. While following a river they got into a heated argument, and one friend struck the other in the face. The friend who was struck was hurt, but without saying anything, bent down and wrote in the sand, ‘Today My Best Friend Struck Me In The Face’. They continued walking for quite some time, …
Take twelve fine, full-grown months. Make sure that they’re thoroughly cleansed from all old memories of bitterness, anger, hate, and jealousy. Cut these months into thirty or thirty one equal parts. (This batch will keep for a year. Don’t make more than one batch at a time…. many people spoil the entire lot in this way). Prepare one day at …
No one knows when it first began, but reports of angelic actions at Kmarts across North America are flooding in. For instance, on December 13th, a woman in her mid-forties at a Kmart in Indianapolis paid off the balance owing on layaway orders for as many as fifty people. A young single father, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots, stood …
One night, a grandson asked his grandmother what she thought was different today than it was when she was a child. The grandmother replied, “Let me think a minute. Well, let’s see. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, contact lenses, frisbees and birth control pills. There weren’t any credit cards, laser beams or ball-point pens yet. …