Someone must’ve put decaf in the wrong pot.

The Smith’s were proud of their family tradition. Their ancestors had come to America on the Mayflower. They had included Senators and Wall Street wizards.

A helicopter pilot is flying to Seattle, and hits a pea-soup-thick fog bank. He’s completely disoriented, and flies blindly around until he spies the top few floors of an office building. He pulls up real close to it, and gets the attention of a woman sitting at her desk.

He’s distracted by cats chasing his mouse.

Fred was applying for a job as a flagman/switch operator on the railroad. The chief engineer was conducting the interview.

Do I really look like a people person?

Barbara Walters had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands.

A group of elementary school students were on a field trip to the local police station. Several of the children were fascinated by the wanted posters on the wall.