the lady sitting next to a man on an airplane had told him about her grandchildren. She had even produced a plastic-foldout photo album of all nine of the children.
She finally realized that she had dominated the entire conversation about her grandchildren.
“Oh, I’ve done all the talking, and I’m so sorry. I know you certainly have something to say. Please, tell me… what do you think of my grandchildren?”
A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco’s Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz.
Others watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another. The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail.
Finally they reached the ticket window. “Five tickets, please,” the father said.
“Two round-trip, three one-way.”
He sits down waiting for the bartender to see him.
The man next to him calls for the bartender, saying, “I’ll have another waterloo.”
The bartender gives him a tall ice-cold drink, then asks the newcomer what he would like to drink.
Wanting to try this new drink, he says, “I’ll have a waterloo, too.” The bartender gives him a tall, ice-cold drink.
He takes a big drink and says, “HEY! This isn’t any good. It tastes just like water!”
The man next to him looks at the bartender and says, “Well, it is water… right, Lou?”
