[Magdalen] groaner

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I bought my friend an elephant for his room.

He said, "Thanks."

I said, "Don't mention it."

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:23 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was bringing my mother-in-law back east to join a retirement community,
> and we flew from Tucson to Pittsburgh. At some point afterwards, Helen was
> searching her purse and came up with a little pen knife none of us had ever
> seen before. "Now how did that get in there?" she wondered. After a while
> it hit me that someone knew he was going to "get into trouble," and to
> avoid that just dropped the knife into someone else's pocket, no doubt
> giggling at the prospect of seeing an older lady wrestled to the ground by
> TSA goons.
>
> They never caught it, obviously.
>
> Inspires confidence in our security personnel.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 9:25 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I always carry my Swiss Army Knife in my pocket (it’s a small one) except
>> when I’m traveling by air.
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>>
>> Jim Handsfield
>> jhandsfield at att.net
>>
>> > On Mar 25, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm more concerned about the senseless damage done to a living thing,
>> but
>> > back when I was young and stupid enough to do such a thing a pocket
>> knife
>> > was just one of the things that I normally had with me. Of course so
>> was a
>> > cigarette lighter.
>>
>>
>