THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT VIII

From Reader's Digest

I was very inexperienced and distinctly apprehensive when I arrived to teach my first English class at a prison. I decided, therefore, that I had better start with the basics. But my first question could hardly have been more ill-chosen: "I suppose you all know what a sentence is?"
Contributed by Arthur Ellis


   We spent  an enjoyable Christmas holiday in New York City, but battling the crowds became too much for me one day, and we sought refuge in a quiet museum, where I sat writing postcards. It was surely weariness that moved me to add on one card: "New Yorkers are rude people." And it was weariness that caused me to leave the cards, ready for mailing, on a bench.
   When we returned home, my family showed me a card which, in addition to my message, said: "Mailed by a rude New Yorker."
Contributed by Linda Prager