Gatiep goes fishing
Gatiep and his best friend from the Karoo loved to fish, so they wanted to try ice fishing.
They’d took off to Canada and found a nice, big frozen lake with a little bait shop nearby where they got all their tackle – including a sturdy ice pick.
About an hour later, one of them was back at the shop and bought another ice pick. In another hour Gatiep was back, and said, “We’re going to need all the ice picks you got.”
The bait man said, “Well, OK — How are you doing out there?”
“Not very well at all,” said Gatiep.
“We don’t even have the boat in the water yet.”
Old Typewriter
The boys had been up in the attic together helping with some cleaning. The kids uncovered an old manual typewriter and asked her, “Hey Mom, what’s this?”
“Oh, that’s an old typewriter,” she answered, thinking that would satisfy their curiosity.
“Well, what does it do?” they queried.
“I’ll show you,” she said and returned with a blank piece of paper. She rolled the paper into the typewriter and began striking the keys, leaving black letters of print on the page.
“WOW!” they exclaimed, “That’s really cool. But how does it work like that? Where do you plug it in?”
“There is no plug,” she answered. “It doesn’t need a plug.”
“Then where do you put the batteries?” they persisted.
“It doesn’t need batteries either,” she continued.
“Wow! This is so cool!” they exclaimed. “Someone should have invented this a long time ago!”
Wat Volwassenes Geleer Het:
Om ‘n tiener groot te maak is soos om jellie aan ‘n boom vas te kap.
Jou ouers was reg toe hulle altyd gesê het, “Wag maar, jy sal verstaan as jy die dag kinders het.”
Middeljare is wanneer jy jou ontbytgraan kies vir die vesel en nie die plesier nie.
Jy kry jou kinders uit die huis maar nie uit jou sak nie.
Geduld is toe nie net ‘n woord nie, dis inspanning.
Kinders grootmaak is nie vir sussies nie.
Selektiewe doofheid is nie ‘n fisiologiese gebrek nie maar ‘n verdedigings-meganisme.
Mens wonder hoekom jou kinders jou ander helfte se humeur en geite geërf het.
Tieners beskryf die ouderdom tussen tien en geduld.
Ouers word “dommer” met elke generasie.
