Shopping Therapy

Dinner for Mel and Ris's birthday was nice, but pretty quiet. Not much talking out of the kids and Adrienne has a cold. I should have told a joke I thought as I was driving home. I picked up a few pretty good ones at the Education Seminar. "Don't put your feet in your mouth, you won't have a leg to stand on." "If you loan a friend $20 and never see them again, it was money well spent." "Some mistakes are too much fun not to make again." "The early worm gets eaten, so always sleep late." And then there's the one about the three contractors, one from Florida, one from Texas and one from New York, who went to Miami on vacation and stayed at the same hotel. There was a storm and a retaining wall was damaged. The manager of the hotel asked the three contractors if they would give him bids to fix it--he was sorry to ask them while they were on vacation, but he was in a jam. The first fellow from Florida gave a fair bid of $2,000--the materials would cost about $1,000 and the labor and overhead would be $1,000. The fellow from Texas was competitive and he said, I can do it for $1,500. The fellow from New York turned in a closed bid of $3,000 and the manager took him aside and said, why would your bid be $3,000, so much higher than the others. Well, said the fellow from New York, the materials cost $1,000, I'd hire the guy from Texas to do the labor for $500 and you and I will split the other half for our trouble. That doesn't sound as funny all written out. Oh well, Happy Birthday girls.

After we ate, we went to Target and a fine time was had by all.