Supermarket tossers
I think it takes years of practice to perfect such skills. I call this real shopping skills. Who says shopping needs no skills? Don’t think it is for real but it looks convincing though. You might want to try it out the next time you go to supermarket shopping. It is kind of fun but be prepared to bear the consequences just in case….
Word puzzle
I received this puzzle in my email and I have problem solving it. I must admit, I gave up. I took a peep at the answer and asked my myself, “Why I never think of that?” Maybe you are smarter.
See if you can figure out what these words have in common.
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess
Try it out and start cracking your head.
A child’s prayer
A little child’s prayer. How innocent.
“Dear God, this year please send clothes for all those poor ladies in daddy’s computer. Amen.”
Amazing moments captured on films
These moments do not repeat themselves. Talking about being there at the right place and right time. Thanks to all the photographers who happened to be there at the right time or were they there waiting for the moments to happen? Guess patience is the keyword that resulted in the capturing of these moments on film.
No more nursing home for me
About two years ago, my wife and I were on a cruise through the Western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone by the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ship officers, waiters, busboys, etc, all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told that she owned the line, but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back.
As we left the dining room one evening, I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, “I understand you’ve been on this ship for the last four cruises.” She replied, “Yes, that’s true.” I stated, “I don’t understand” and she replied without a pause, “It’s cheaper than a nursing home.”
So there will be no nursing homes in my future. When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.
2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed everyday of the week)
3. Princess has as many as 3 swimming pools, workout room, free washers and dryers and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. They will even treat you like a customer, and not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. TV broken? Light bulb needs changing? Need to have mattress replaced? No problem! They will fix everything and apologise for your inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels everyday, and you don’t even have to ask for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip, you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship, they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia or name where you want to go? Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don’t look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
P.S. If you die they just toss your body over the side of the boat.
Solution to the financial crisis?
In a small town on the South Coast of France, the holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening. Everyone is heavily in debt.
Luckily, a rich American tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel.
He asks for a room and puts a Euro 100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor.
The hotel owner takes the banknote in a hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes E100.
The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.
The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay E100 for pigs he purchased some time ago.
The farmer triumphantly gives the E100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit.
The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she was owing the hotel for her hourly room use to entertain clients.
At that moment, the rich American is coming down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and takes his E100 back and departs.
There was no profit or income, but everyone no longer has any debt and the small town’s people look optimistically towards their future.
COULD THIS BE THE SOLUTION TO THE Global Financial Crisis?
