Day: July 31, 2014

* Watching a particularly romantic ending to a Disney animated video, my five-year-old sighed. “I hope I meet my prince someday,” she said wistfully. “Of course you will,” I reassured her. “You know, I met my prince the day I met your daddy.” Puzzled she turned to me and said,  “Who was  he?”

As a worker at Walt Disney world in Florida one of my jobs was to empty the garbage cans in front of the castle several times a day. One afternoon as I dumped the barrel into my cart I heard a little girl ask her mother, “Who is that lady?”  The mother thought for a minute and answered “Why Honey, that must be Cinderella.”

@ 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.”