Elephant Thorn
A man goes to Africa on a safari. While there, he comes upon an elephant, in great pain, with a giant thorn in its foot. The man very carefully approaches the elephant, and gingerly removes the thorn from its foot. The elephant begins to walk away, then turns and stares at the man for a full minute, locking eyes with him. The elephant then continues on its way. “I wonder if I ever see that elephant again if it will remember me?”, the man muses to himself.
A few years later, and the man is at a circus back in the States.
He notices that one of the elephants keeps looking at him, almost like it KNOWS him. The man wonders, “Could this be that elephant I helped so long ago?” He decides to get a closer look. With the elephant still giving him the stare-down, the man moves in closer, getting right up in front of the elephant. They lock eyes. A knowing look seems to cross the elephant’s face. It reaches down… picks the man up carefully with its trunk… lifts him high in the air… and THROWS HIM CRASHING TO THE GROUND AND STOMPS HIM TO INTENSIVE CARE!
Turns out it wasn’t THAT elephant.
New recruit arrival
My youngest brother, Tony had just completed Army basic training and was on leave prior to his first tour in Germany. I am an Army National Guard pilot and our other brother, John, is my crew chief.
Since John and I were headed to the Air Base where Tony was to catch his overseas transport, we offered to take him.
When we landed at McGuire Air Force Base, several of Tony’s fellow privates came out to greet him. Tony ran ahead, while John and I followed with his gear.
As Tony approached his buddies, he was bewildered by their dumbfounded stares.
Then he realized that his friends weren’t seeing his two brothers giving him a lift…
No… they were seeing a new private arrive in his *own* helicopter — with a captain and a sergeant carrying his bags!
First Wedding
Little Mary was at her first wedding and gaped at the entire ceremony.
When it was over, she asked her mother, “Why did the lady change her mind?”
Her mother asked, “What do you mean?”
“Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another one.”
Wooden Spoons
When my eldest daughter explained to her Sunday school class that the cross Jesus was crucified on was the way people were punished those days, a little boy intrigued by the story, wanted to know if they had wooden spoons those days as well.
