Month: September 2008
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A Lifetime
An angry client went back to the automobile garage where he’d purchased an expensive battery for his car just six months earlier.
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Pray for Us
A couple was touring the Capitol in Washington D.C.
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Are You Stupid?
A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses.
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The Break-In
A burglar broke into the house of a Quaker in the middle of the night and started to rob it.
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What the Market WIll Bear
The proprietor of a successful optical shop was instructing his son on how to charge a customer.
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Worthless
“I’m ashamed of the way we live,” a young wife said to her lazy husband who refused to find a job. “My father pays our rent. My mother buys all of our food.
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Fishing
Two old friends were recounting their dreams. “I dreamed I was on vacation,” one man said fondly. “It was just me and my fishing rod and this big beautiful lake. What a dream.”
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High Birth Rate
A little town had a high birth rate that had attracted the attention of the sociologists at the state university.