*At a department store, a small boy was standing at the foot of the down escalator, staring intently at the moving hand rail. “Is there something wrong, little fellow” asked the manager as he walked by. “No, sir”, the boy said.” I am waiting for my bubblegum to come back.”

*I don’t want to say that inflation is running away but at the mall I saw gumball machine that took dollar bills.

@ My grandfather was sipping a beer when he confessed to me that he drank more than usual the day before.   “What is more than usual”, I asked.   “A case.”   “You drank a case of beer in a day?”   “Well”, he grumbled defensively, “it doesn’t take all day.”