I live for baseball. But I had to go to work during an important game, so I asked my wife to tape it for me. After I left the office, I flew through our front door, bursting with anticipation.
“Dont tell me the score!” I yelled to her.
“I don’t know the score,” she assured me. “All I know is your team lost.”
–Michael Bogess in the June 2008 Reader’s Digest, page 61
I am challenged by technological innovations. It takes me a while to learn. When our VCR was new many years ago, I taped “Romancing the Stone.” My husband sat down to enjoy it when he came home from a trip. Near the end, at the very moment the emerald was thrown up in the air with the crocodiles lurking — the tape ran out! I had programmed incorrectly. He’ll never let me forget it.
They used a variation of this in an episode of Home Improvement.
Related: I had a teacher one time get up and tell an elaborate tale to show how traditions get started and we eventually lose the reason behind it.
In her tale, she told of how when she got married, her husband would always make her cut the end off a roast before putting it in the pan for the oven.
When she asked why, he stated “I don’t know, that’s how my mom always did it.”
Later she asked mom-in-law, and she said, “I do that because I never had a pan big enough for the roast.”
Being young and foolish, I blurted out, “Oh that’s a great story, I read it in Reader’s Digest a year ago!” She just GLARED at me.
🙂
Jim Elliott