Day: April 18, 2013

 + Tired of nagging my teenage son about clearing out his pockets before he put his clothes into the laundry, I told him that from now on I would take all the money from the pants and put it into a jar in the laundry room and when it was full he would be buying me dinner out.  The next wash day I gave him the laundry basket and told him get his clothes together to get washed. I peeked into his room and was pleased to see him going through emptying the pockets of his clothes. Then he hesitated and put a dollar and some change back into the pants pocket.

+ My brother Dan had returned home from Marquette University in Milwaukee with his dirty laundry one time too many. My mother caught him trying to sneak his clothes in the back door. “Let me guess,” she said. “All the machines in your dorm broke down again?” “Worse than that,” he replied. “Milwaukee  ran out of quarters.”

@ Zeke asked Buck, “Were you ever married.”  “Sure was, but my wife ran away on me.” “How did that happen.” “She ran away while I was taken a bath,” Zeke offered. “I bet she waited a long time for that opportunity.”