THE GLUE THAT HOLDS US ALL TOGETHER
When picking up my then five-year-old from school one day, I noticed big marks all over the front of his school top. When I asked, “What’s on your top?”, he casually replied, “Oh, I glued my face to my shirt!”
Katrina, Christchurch
FACTS OF LIFE
One evening, not long after my daughter started school, she told me that she knew “how to start children.” Thinking that the time had come, albeit a little bit early, for a simple facts-of-life talk, I asked her, “How, dear?” Miss Five got out a pencil and piece of paper and wrote CH!
Fooled me, Auckland, July 3, 1972
SAY WHAT?
This wanted ad in an Auckland newspaper: “Family board for 30-year-old male. Sober habits from Monday to…
