When our lawn mower broke and wouldn’t run, my wife kept hinting to me that
I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care
of first, the truck, the car, fishing, always something more important to me.
Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.
When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily
snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a
short time and then went into the house. I was gone only a few minutes. When
I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.
“When you finish cutting the grass,” I said, “you might as well sweep the sidewalk.”
The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
When the Hunchback retired, Notre Dame advertises for a new bell ringer. After several promising candidate’s a boy with no arms walks up the tower and says he’s ready to work. The Chaplin looks at him and says you have no arms son you can’t possibly ring the bell. The boy says that nobody ever gives him a chance and starts to walk away and the Chaplin says ok son give it a try. He looks around and see’s an old barrel and a wooden plank and with his feet and body manage to set up a ramp. Then he takes a run up the ramp leaps into the air and smacks the bell with his face, DONG goes the bell. The Chaplin with mouth agape says that was amazing but at noon he has to ring the bell 12 times. The boy gets up and runs and leaps DONG runs and leaps DONG runs and totally dazed misses the bell and flies out the window of the tower onto the ground below. By the time the Chaplin runs out of the bell tower to the boy a large crowd has gathered and so has the constable. The Chaplin knells down next to the boy and says my lad I never should have let you try. The constable says to the Chaplin do you know the boy, and the Chaplin says no but his face rings a bell.