Reading Snacks Seven
AMUSING REMARKS
The waitress welcomed the gentleman as he seated himself at
his table.
She said: ‘I'll get your teeth for you.’
Evidently he just wore his false teeth at mealtime.
Someone nearby overhearing this exchange, remarked quietly,
‘I hope the tooth fairy didn't take them away.’
ABOUT BALLOONS
Real balloons are light, fragile items of sealed in nothingness. Just
for fun.
Such was the case in the newspaper photograph of a young man
in Afghanistan during the wartime. In spite of all the perils
and hardships of a country under siege, here was an enterprising
chap out on the street to sell his wares.
He was dressed attractively in a pale mauve outfit of loose
trousers with matching shirt. His lengthy vest had been
carefully crafted with a design on it. One had the feeling that
he was proud of his mother's efforts to make him appear mature
yet stylish.
The picture captured a happy moment with the colourful clutch
of balloons adding that final light touch. They were a reminder
of the old saying that said something similar to: ‘If you have
to decide how to spend your money - on bread, or something for
a little pleasure - decide on the pleasure,’ in this case choose
balloons.
A NOTE ABOUT NOTES
A retired senior citizen in search of a hobby, attended a
beginners' lecture on music. He came home to test his memory
on what he had learned.
Standing in front of his own second hand piano keyboard, the note
Middle C was easily found. (Alright so far.) Next to C came
two more white notes, which he recognized as D and E.
(Now what about the black notes in between?) The lecturer had
said they could be either used as the first one — D flat or
C Sharp. (Why the choice?) It seemed to have something to do
with the Key in which the music was written. (Well let's leave
that problem for now.)
Alright, the next white note should be ‘f’ (following ‘e’ of
course).
Then he saw that these other black notes got in the way around
the note that should be a ‘g’. Someone in the class had suggested
that the notes after ‘g’, should be ‘h’ and ‘i’, but everyone just
laughed. No, these notes return again with ‘a’ and ‘b’ leading
back home to ‘C’, an octave (8 notes) away from its lower relative
‘C’. We still have three more black notes unaccounted for.
Musicians know them usually as F Sharp, G Sharp and B Flat.
However, the retired senior decided he could handle them better
if named: ‘whenever’, ‘however’ and ‘not necessarily’.
It has been rumoured that he soon decided to choose a different
hobby, and put away his stickers, prepared for the keys, to use on
next year’s Christmas greetings.