The boys had been up in the attic together helping with some cleaning. They uncovered an old manual typewriter and asked their mother what it was. She briefly explained, but they were still puzzled as to how it worked.
“I’ll show you,” their mother 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!”
Bargain with God
Angus was driving down the street worried because he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, he prayed in desperation: “Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life and give up whisky.”
Miraculously, a moment later a parking place appeared. Angus looked up again and said, “Never mind. I found one.”
Don’t cross the line
There is a line on the ocean where you lose a day after crossing it. There’s also a line on all busy roads, where you can lose a lot more if you cross it.