Tomorrow I will collect my brother and drive him down to Helen and James' house for our Christmas Day luncheon. Of the assembled extended family attending, there is not one true Christian amongst us. We don't celebrate anything but the festive season and not think about the meaning of Christmas. I would venture to say that 90% of Australians are the same as us.
Today I had a 24 year old Jewish lad at my door who talked me into donating A$20 a month to the Australian Red Cross. He was a personable, likeable, young man with piercing grey eyes that I imagine would have spooked Germans in the 1930s. He is an Israeli here on a visitor's visa. I liked him.
OK; time for a Christmas story....
A cop pulls over a bloke on his way home from a staff Christmas party. He has him blow into a breathalyser and the result is not good.
' Sir, you are just over the legal limit' says the cop.
The driver asks for clemency.....'Mate it's Christmas, isn't here any compassion?'
The cop replies...'OK in the spirit of Christmas I'll give you a break. if you can find three things in your car relating to Christmas I'll let you off'.
The driver searches around and finds a Christmas card from work colleagues, then a present that he had bought his wife....in desperation he opens the glove box and produces a pair of panties.
The cop asks...'What have they to do with Christmas?. Our man replies...'They are Carol's'.
2 comments:
Are you sure you door caller was not a scamster? We had a similar sounding young man a couple of weeks ago claiming to represent the Red Cross. He even wore a ragged looking jerkin with red crosses, but he got a bit agro when I politly said I wasn't interested. I thought about calling the cops, but didn't. Paul W.
Hope you had a good Christmas Kev, I enjoyed the little ones very much, so much so I even blogged about it.
Take care.....:-)Hugs
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