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When my sister was 8 years old, her school phoned and asked my mother to come and pick her up.

My mother was concerned, and hurried to the school.

She talked to the teacher and found out what the problem was:

The class had been talking about grandparents. At some time during the discussion my sister said her grandmother had died, and started crying uncontrollably.

My mother took my sister and left.

On the drive home my mother said, ” Gramma isn’t dead, you know that.”
My sister responded, ” Gramma Janes is”.
Our other grandmother had died 10 years before my sister was born!

My sister could have been an actor.

note: crying in class never got me a dayoff; just a schoolyard beating for being such a cry baby.

Allergies

It’s allergy season in Japan.

Lots of people suffering, wearing those white masks, and going to the doctors for shots and pills.

I’m lucky: I don’t have allergies.

I’ve heard this simplified explanation as to why some people get allergies and some don’t.

Everyone has a bucket in their immune system. When the bucket becomes full, you start to get allergies. Some people have big buckets that will never be full; other people have small buckets that filled up a long time ago.

I’m not sure if this is true, but it makes sense to me.

I wonder how full my bucket is.

Maybe my bucket has a hole in it.
Wouldn’t that just be my luck.

On A Different Note

Is there an international agreement about the size and shape of money?

Most countries’ paper money is rectangular and roughly the same size.
It fits in a standard wallet.
If it doesn’t, it’s because of the quantity of notes not the size.


Wouldn’t it be refreshing to pay for something with triangular, oval, or octagonal money?
Even square money would be a change.

The wallet industry would probably enjoy a bit of a financial boom, or at the very least it would put a little more creativity into wallet makers’ lives.

note: what came first: money, wallets, or pockets?

This Is The End

The ends of things are usually bad:

-the end of a relationship
-the end of a friendship
-the end of the toilet roll
-the end of a cigar
-the ends of a cucumber
-the end of the gas in your tank
-the end of a gun
-the end of a favourite TV show
-the end of the alcohol
-the end of your favourite sport’s season ( a hard 2 - 6 months in between)



But some endings are good!

-The End episode of Red Dwarf (actually the first episode)

-the end of winter (unless you are a skier/snowboarder)
-the end of a bad relationship
-the end of the work week
-the end of a bad bottle of shampoo

But my favourite ends are…

the ends of a freshly baked loaf of bread.

The crusts, the door stops, or the heels are the best!