TIDBITS 1022

A young man saw an elderly couple sitting down to lunch at a fast food restaurant. He noticed that they had ordered one meal and an extra drink cup.

As he watched, the gentleman carefully divided the hamburger in half, then counted out the fries, one for him, one for her, until each had half of them. Then he poured half of the soft drink into the extra cup and set that in front of his wife.

The old man then began to eat, and his wife sat watching, with her hands folded in her lap.
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TIDBITS 1020

[A version of this first one was featured during our first run of TIDBITS and appeared in issue #881 in June 2004. I’ve edited and updated it for use in this issue.]

A woman was walking along a beach when she stumbled over a bottle, knocking the cork out. Out popped a genie. The woman got very excited and said, “Oh goodie! I get three wishes, right?”

“No ma’am,” replied the genie. “Things are really bad in the genie economy, so today you can only get one wish.”
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TIDBITS 1018

Sam went to the doctor to find out about his recent tests.

“It’s really bad, I’m afraid,” said his doctor. “You’ve got a disease so new that it hasn’t even been given a name yet — we just call it ‘Blue 56.’

“The only certain thing,” continued the doctor in hushed tones, “is that you don’t have much more than three days to live.”

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TIDBITS 1017

Three drunk guys climbed into a taxi. Noting their extreme state of intoxication, the taxi driver figured he could trick them and make an easy buck without any of them being the wiser. The driver started the engine, waited a minute, then turned it off, saying, “Okay, we’ve reached your destination!”

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