Light Notes
John died and went to Heaven.
He arrived at a large hall, where the males were being separated into
two lines. One line was marked “Hen-pecked men” and the other
line was marked “Macho Men.” The line of hen-pecked men was long
and wrapped around several times. But the line for macho men was very
short, and indeed had only one man in it. A little boy was following
his father out of church when he noticed a series of plaques on the
wall. When his turn to greet the pastor came, he asked: “Who are
all these men?” Rosie whispered to me as we watched her husband, Sid, fishing in a bucket of water in the middle of their living room, “I’d take him to a psychiatrist, but we really need the fish.” When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why; when a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why. The honeymoon is over when the husband calls home to say he’ll be late for dinner and the answering machine says it is in the microwave. |