Laughter, the Best Medicine by Editors of Reader's Digest

Author:Editors of Reader's Digest [Editors of Reader’s Digest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781606525487
Publisher: Readers Digest
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

“Don’t make it look too nice, I want her to think I did it myself.”

My friend reviewed her young son’s fill-in-the-blank homework.

One line: “At Christmas we exchange gifts with _____.”

His response: “Receipts.”

—CAROL SCHNELL

Last autumn I found a bargain-priced pair of slippers, size 12, and gave them to my husband, David. But he said he didn’t wear slippers, so I set them aside for our family’s “White Elephant” gift exchange at Christmas.

The way it works at our get-togethers is you choose a gift marked “man” or “woman” from among the presents when your number is called. When the time came, I watched David choose the gift-wrapped box I had added to the pile. “Look at these nice slippers,” he said to me after he opened it. “I can’t believe they’re the right size, too!”

—IRENE MYERS

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.

—DON MARQUIS

My grandfather passed away not long before Christmas, and at almost the same time, my mother’s friend lost a close relative.

When they exchanged presents a week later, Mom wrote a sensitive message on the gift tag: “May God give you peace at this difficult time.”

Mom was expecting a note of condolence from her friend, but she had evidently chosen not to dwell on the bereavement: Mom’s present—a hedgehog garden ornament—came with a tag bearing the words, “I hope you have room for him in your garden.”

—MARK SHEARMAN

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