This is a true story from the Reader’s Digest, Australia, sent in by Iain Steven, Rotorua.
One rainy night, I stopped to pick up two hitch-hikers on a lonely road and was a little concerned when a third man appeared with an object in his hand. My fears were allayed by their story. After their vehicle ran out of fuel, they had got a lift to town, bought a can of petrol and were trudging back.
I drove them to their car amid effusive thanks, then proceeded feeling very much the Good Samaritan.
Next morning, I found the can of petrol still on the back floor.
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Another true story, this time from the Reader’s Digest, Canada, sent in by Alvin T. Parker.
One overcast evening I passed the principal of York University’s Glendon College, Toronto, who was out looking for his missing Lassie look-alike. He told me the dog often ran away, so he had put a metal tag on its collar asking that anyone finding the dog send it home in a taxi.
A few days later I again met the principal, and he told me that as he was trudging home during a downpour that night, his snug and dry dog had passed him in a taxi.
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And for those of you who prefer jokes to true stories, here’s a Tim Viner:
This bloke said to me, ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.’
I thought, ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.’
that first story was eerie!!!
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The joke is so pathetic that it’s really funny. 🙂 The first story made my hair stand on end….now if only it would stay like that. 😆 Have a great day, Tilly. I’m just off to bed.
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I’m disappointed. I’ve always visualised you with one of those palm tree haircuts like your gravatar. Isn’t it really like that?
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😆 My hair reminds me of Sir Toby Belch’s remark to Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night, “It hangs like flax on a distaff.”
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Laughing before bed : )))
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love it….
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Another great one-liner from Tim Vine!
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That second story had me laughing. 😉 It should have read: his smug and smart dog… 😆
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I am creeped out by story number one.
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Really weird, but I love the dog story. Dianne
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That dog had me laughing.
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Story one …. is a bit creepy !!!!!
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