Re: OT, cute story??

LOL :>)

"Cripple" <duh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Years ago, I submitted this story to Readers Digest to see if they
wanted to
> use it. They never replied either way.
>
> This is an edited version of the story (shortened for RD), I lost the
> original version when the disks went screwy, but this is a low-fat
version.
>
> Thought you all might get a kick out of it. This is a absolutely true
> story, and this was my family.
>
>
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> Ed
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> After a somewhat stressful day at work I returned home to my family
hoping
> for a pleasant supper and stress-free evening.
>
> As we sat down to supper, my daughters, ages 11 and 14, who had
apparently
> been sniping at each other since they got home from school, continued to
> throw barbs at each other. They did not seem to notice that I was
becoming
> very tired of this. When supper was over, I was in desperate need of
some
> peace and quiet. Sensing this my wife sent the girls to their rooms to
do
> some more studying.
>
> As my wife and I sat in the living room watching the ballgame, we could
> still hear the girls down the hall still arguing with each other. I
decided
> to try something different and yelled down the hall, " If you two do not
> stop fighting, I am going to come down there and moon the both of you".
>
> At that, they instantly became very quiet and after a few seconds my
older
> daughter yells to me, "Dad, why can't we just get grounded, like other
kids
> do?"
>
>


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