God has send friend request on Facebook

😆😆 presently blessing in disguise is people are mending their ways . They are stitching in time and saving nine . They are not crying on spilt milk . They are not showing crocdile tears . They are at their best .. Man has proved that time and tide waits so that human can won…

Today, u know what happened in our society….

My friend got bored sitting at his home in this lockdown….So, he went out n told the vegetable cart puller, at the gate….’Please sit in my home n watch TV for some time. I will take your vegetable cart for one round in the colony n come back’….

Vegetable cart puller said…. ‘I belong to the next gully. The actual Vegetable Vendor is sitting in my home n watching TV’…..😆😆😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝

Judge the book . Buy new covers

It’s funny how the world economy is about to “collapse”, just because people are now buying “only” what they really need.

Shit man.
We were fueling a “fake” boom.

Had we stuck to the basics with little indulgence, prices would have been less than 50 pc what they are today.

Amazing na

People on Mars saying Same pinch

#jump foods

Everything which is happening is new but must have happened in remote past or some other planet . But if we take care of minute things. Then we shall conquer.
All Officers and Staff to strictly adhere to these
👇🏻👇🏻

  1. avoid wearing loose clothes – sarees, stoles etc to office for few days.
  2. Anything which sweeps the floor should be avoided .
  3. Wear long sleeved thick clothes.
  4. U can wear home-stitched long coveralls while commuting.
  5. Ditch the purse or carry a very small one n disinfect it on return.
  6. Carry ur things in cotton bags and wash them daily.
  7. No watches or rings or any jewellery.
  8. Keep the nails short.
  9. Opening and cleaning the room on ur own as far as possible.
  10. Wear closed bellies/ shoes rather than open toe sandals.
  11. Ditch the office crockery till things become normal.
  12. It would be safest to eat straight from your lunch box packed in small containers carried from home. Use your own spoons. Dont wash the vessels in office.
  13. Carry your own water bottle & avoid using the Office glasses/ cups.
  14. Keep two cloth bags for carrying your lunch to be used on alternate days as they should also be washed on return.
  15. Carry Disinfectant wipes and toilet seat disinfectant spray.
  16. Have a heavy breakfast at home before leaving for office.
  17. Have some fruits or savouries for lunch.
  18. Take a cup for tea, teabags sugar milk sachets and a flask for hot water from home.
  19. Disinfect door handles, electric switches, table, chair, office phone, desktop, mouse and keyboard before use. Keep plants outside.
  20. Take stairs and climb in the middle, away from wall or railing.
  21. Keep using sanitiser frequently.
No matter which color u are follow rules

( _in the interest of Officers and staff )

Regards..🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

We have to practise Moon walk #

#jump foods .

Present scenario is forcing us to do what we like but donot dare . Its high time we have to reset our time table and dance on tune of time. We cant say who moved my chesse and have to change. Webinar by IMF, chaired by Raguram Rajan, this morning.
Key takeaways are as follows.

General Outlook –

We have to unlock new aspects
  1. India seems to have supressed the curve so far. It looks like it might escape the worst of the pandemic, but will have to be cautious about it.
  2. Possibility of W Curve – i.e. There is a good chance of re-occurrence of the virus, which could see a possibility of regular lockdowns. Businesses need to plan accordingly.
  3. Capital will look for countries that are less battered. Western economies are badly battered while countries like India, Indonesia, etc are not so battered. Global Capital could flow into India, if we can act efficiently to pull it.
  4. Emotional and Economic backlash against China is expected. Already, countries and companies are working on strategy to pivot away from China as part of their supply chains. Japan Govt has announced packages for it’s companies bringing back manufacturing home. Businesses need to keep this in mind and work accordingly.

Discretionary Spending –

  1. For individuals, health and safety will become No.1 on their agenda from the 3rd of 4th place. There will be more spending on this area and reduction in other discretionary spends.
  2. The ticket size of spending will drop for a while. People will spend on cheaper goods than on expensive goods, or delay spending for a while.
  3. Extreme acceleration in digital economy. I.e. Home education, home entertainment, home fitness, etc
  4. Loyalty shock. People will be less loyal towards brands as other aspects will take over. People will switch brands faster due to various other concerns like safety, etc.
  5. General Trust deficit. There will be trust deficit amongst stakeholders like vendors, customers, employees, borrowers, banks, etc. Banks will have trust deficit with borrowers, companies will have trust deficit with suppliers, etc.

Liquidity and P&L –

  1. Segregate Good Costs and Bad Costs

a. Good costs (Eg. Digitization, tech costs, digital marketing, best employees, etc) need to be insulated and protected

b. Bad Costs (Eg. Fancy office, unnecessary spending, bad performers, traditional working methods) need to be ruthlessly eliminated. Don’t be emotional about non-core businesses. Concentrate on core business.

  1. Be Frugal – Not necessary to have fancy office, fancy cars, excess employee strength, etc. Remove all the flab and be lean.
  2. Maintain Good behaviour – have frank and open conversation with all stakeholders like suppliers, employees, etc and try to find the middle ground, so that the burden can be shared justly.
  3. Be Future Ready – In this crisis, there will be winners and there will be losers. Those who re-orient their strategy will be winners.

Govt Stimulus –

  1. Economy was in poor shape even before Covid. The govt has little leeway to provide large stimulus.
  2. Govt earns about $60-70 billion a week from taxes. Imagine what a hit a 5-week lockdown will have. Size of Indian economy is about $3 Trillion. In some scenarios, it is predicted that Govt could take a hit of nearly $1 Trillion.
  3. Inequality has already sharpened. The gap between rich and poor has further increased. Govt needs to concentrate on mass health and mass welfare. If not, 200 million people could sink into poverty.
  4. Govt must explore printing currency (Quantitative easing), but there are limitations here. It has side effects like inflation, etc. Rich countries have more leeway for such quantitative easing.
  5. Govt must concentrate on grabbing more capital from outside and do reforms to enable that.

Result of backlash against China –

  1. Internationally, there could be an emotional and economic backlash against China.
  2. Businesses with supply chains passing through China will need to keep this in mind and insulate themselves and build alternatives.
  3. India and Indian businesses need to try to become the contract manufacturer of the world, just like China is. India needs to make use of this opportunity smartly.
  4. All big wealth funds and soverign funds will be awash with Liquidity. This liquidity needs to be attracted to India.
  5. In every sector, there are good and bad companies. Management has to invest correctly in manufacturing and modern tech, be honest and fair to all stakeholders, etc., Those companies with good management and displaying good behaviour will come out victorious.

Export Business –

  1. Indian exporters need to build trust. They need live up to promises made. They need to deliver on time and deliver the promised quality. They shouldn’t make incorrect promises just to get more business.
  2. Bangladesh export business has built trust and a good reputation. Despite a chequered past (low quality, human rights issues, etc) they have managed to overcome and are winning.

Wholesale, Retail, etc. –

  1. More people will prefer to buy from retail stores where there is perception of safety (Eg. Sanitation, cleanliness, crowds, etc). They will move more towards malls away from markets. Many will move towards online stores. Wholesale suppliers also need to concentrate on such retailers.
  2. Customers also need to be ring-fenced :

a. A high end restaurant in Delhi is giving 40% of bill value as a gift coupon to be used anytime upto December 2020.

b. Car companies are giving buy back offers, incase the customer loses his job in the next one year.

  1. Pricing needs to be re-approached. People are looking for cheaper prices or cheaper goods.

Brick & Mortar in Discretionary Spends –

  1. Cinemas could take a big hit in the near future. Entertainment could move home.
  2. Because of this, cafes and restaurants might see some increase in business. Many chains are implementing measures like social distancing like lesser furniture, etc, to build confidence to consumers.
  3. Smaller retailers need to send a message of safety. Eg: Have sanitisers, put up notice of no Covid positive employee found in the store, maintain social distancing, etc.
  4. Since travel and tourism will take a big hit, connected purchases will also shift. Purchases that happened abroad will happen at home. (Eg. Electronics, Luxury goods and apparel, etc.,). But travel related purchases will drop.

Real Estate –

  1. Indian real estate economy is sitting on a huge inventory with a huge cost-of-carry.
  2. The industry is highly leveraged with low margins.
  3. Unsold inventory is considered as an appreciating asset, but might turn out to be a flawed view.
  4. Market was already overdue for a huge reset, which will be accelerated by the pandemic.
  5. Also, the sharing and co-working space could be hit as more businesses try to have their own smaller spaces and more WFH employees.

Jewellery etc –

  1. Gold-as-an-asset could see appreciation.
  2. Jewelry, as a discretionary spend, will take a hit.
  3. The Indian wedding industry will take a hit, as social distancing, cost consciousness, travel avoidance, etc., will prevent fat weddings, destination weddings, etc. This will hit all connected industries. (Eg. Silk, partywear, etc)

Financial Markets –

  1. There will be value destruction and value creation in different companies in the same sector.
  2. High Debt low margin companies will find it difficult. (indicates risky or unscrouplus management)
  3. High Debt high margin companies could be rewarded, but caution needs to be exercised. (may indicate sharp or dynamic management)
  4. No debt high margin companies are best rewarded now.
  5. Know more about the CEO and management and their actions and activities.
    (Eg: 3 branches of Starbucks were kept open in India for last few days. The CEO of Starbucks India sat in the Fort (Mumbai) branch throughout the day to give his employees confidence and motivation)
  6. New tech unicorns will be born. Those involved in cyber security, cloud services, online education services, etc.

Forex Markets –

  1. No doomsday scenario (i.e. Dollar will become 90 rupees etc). Such scenarios don’t seem realistic
  2. Govt should be buying as much oil as possible, as such prices may never be seen in the future of oil.
  3. As the western economies are more battered and Indian economy is less battered so far, there is more liquidity coming in. That’s why there is a rally in the market. This scenario could change depending on the spread of the disease in India.
  4. Watch out for sharp spikes in the market. Better to avoid the spikes.

Outlook for near future –

A. Large Companies 1

a. Huge concern seen for employees. Companies are paying the employees even when closed.

b. HUL Decided not to cut a single rupee for their suppliers, service providers, etc. No haircuts.

c. Safety of employees and customers is becoming a major point of focus.

d. This is possible because they have reserves of funds, etc that have been built up over the years.

B. Medium and Small businesses –

a. They have to work with thin capital reserves. Excess capital is taken out of the business and applied into personal assets.

b. Small businesses take out the surplus and purchase personal assets instead of re-investing in the business. There are various factors and motivations here.

c. Because of this, they are unable to meet the cash expenses of even the next month.

d. A high end restaurant chain in Delhi (with Rs.40 crore annual turnover) is unable to pay the salaries of the current month as it has no liquid reserve. Owner has invested in personal assets like house in London, etc.

e. Medium and Small business need to have a look at how they can build some business reserves to endure such disruptions.

“ Force Majeure ” in Contracts –

  1. Should force majeure clauses be triggerd in various contracts like rent, supply, etc? It will lead to litigation, but there is no point in getting into litigation now.
  2. All parties have been affected by the crisis. The tenants, the landlords, the lenders/financiers, etc.
  3. Parties need to sit across the table and find a common ground and mutually decide upon the costs, rentals, etc. Burden has to be shared.

Work From Home Scenario –

  1. It is possible for lot of employees to not visit the office and still be productive.
  2. In RBL corporate office, it is found that it is enough that only 30% staff stay in the office. Others can be connected from homes. This leads to lesser commute expense, stress of the commute, time wasted, etc.,
  3. Parents can take care of children more effectively when WFH. There can be dark hours when no calls will be made, etc.,

Optimism –

As per a McKinsey survey of entrepreneurs released few days ago, 53% of Indian entrepreneurs are optimistic, while only 25% of Japanese entrepreneurs are optimistic.
It seems to be a mild U-Curve for the Indian economy. But the descent has not stopped yet.

Around the world with no dollars

Journey of virus which is invisible is creating panic and has reached every nook and corner

Lockdown began from march 25th at midnight🕛… And now extended till 3rd may..

It’s exactly 40 days from 25th March to 3rd may…

QUARANTINE

The Latin root of the word “quarantine” is “forty”.

So what does the holy books say about 40?

The flood lasted 40 days.

40 years Moses fled Egypt.

40 days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai to receive the Commandments.

Exodus lasted 40 years.

Jesus fasted for 40 days.

Lent is 40 days.

40 days for a woman to rest after giving birth.

A group of theologians thinks the number 40 represents “change”. It is the time of preparing a person, or people, to make a fundamental change.

Something will happen after these 40 days. Just believe and pray.

Please know that during this “quarantine” rivers are cleaning up, vegetation is growing, the air is becoming cleaner because of less pollution, there is less theft and murder, healing is happening, and most importantly, people are turning to Almighty. The Earth is at rest for the first time in many years and hearts are truly transforming.

Remember we are in the year 2020, and 20 + 20 = 40.

GOD pressing RESET Button

# jump foods
Our paradise which was our beautiful world is being lost again .we are playing with nature and tasting forbidden fruits .and trying to manipulate biological weapons in lab god was unhappy then and now also.: The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (Latin for in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later.

Milton’s story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandæmonium, the capital city of Hell, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organize his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to corrupt the newly created Earth and God’s new and most favoured creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God’s new material World, and later the Garden of Eden.

At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan’s rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan’s forces take place over three days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death.

The story of Adam and Eve’s temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. Adam and Eve are presented as having a romantic and sexual relationship while still being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another – if she dies, he must also die. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong.

After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve have lustful sex. At first, Adam is convinced that Eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. However, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realizing that they have committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination.

Meanwhile, Satan returns triumphantly to Hell, amid the praise of his fellow fallen angels. He tells them about how their scheme worked and Mankind has fallen, giving them complete dominion over Paradise. As he finishes his speech, however, the fallen angels around him become hideous snakes, and soon enough, Satan himself turns into a snake, deprived of limbs and unable to talk. Thus, they share the same punishment, as they shared the same guilt.

Eve appeals to Adam for reconciliation of their actions. Her encouragement enables them to approach God, and sue for grace, bowing on supplicant knee, to receive forgiveness. In a vision shown to him by the Archangel Michael, Adam witnesses everything that will happen to Mankind until the Great Flood. Adam is very upset by this vision of the future, so Michael also tells him about Mankind’s potential redemption from original sin through Jesus Christ (whom Michael calls “King Messiah”).

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, and Michael says that Adam may find “a paradise within thee, happier far.” Adam and Eve also now have a more distant relationship with God, who is omnipresent but invisible (unlike the tangible Father in the Garden of Eden
[4/17, 10:22 PM] Ra..: May The Almighty Protect,heal each and everyone of us,regardless of our religion,race,colour,beliefs and social status. Let’s come together and pray.
Almighty God bless us all with good health and a speedy recovery to those who are suffering and fighting with Covid19

Good Morning .. A new definition

Nice piece fwded to me

Its time to open eyes

Lockdown log

  1. National boundaries don’t matter. We are in this together. You die I die. So racism, economic superiority 1st 2nd 3rd world category, doesn’t matter. Politico socio economic ideologies don’t matter. We are all moving towards the same abyss.
  2. Big pharma doesn’t matter. Medical industry loses its bite. The vicious cycle of maintaining the world in a chronic state of sickness has been broken. Doctors have become noble again. Holier than the holy. The way it was always meant to be.
  3. Religion doesn’t matter. If God can’t save you from dying what good is He? And if you can’t congregate what use is religion? You can pray but that’s spirituality, personal faith not religion. Religion has lost its fizz.
  4. Money doesn’t matter. You might have a fleet of servants but they are sitting pretty in their homes. You are sweeping and mopping and cooking and paying them for the work you do.
  5. The Queen of England is more vulnerable than the hermit in a cave. Because if you got no social distance you got no chill. So social status doesn’t matter. Hermit, Queen same difference.
  6. No socialisation so no need for expensive wardrobe. No need to wax and do your eyebrows and fit into that thing. No one is looking at you. Actually, no need to iron either. Fashion loses its fizz.
  7. No need for that Mercedes or private jet or even Air Force One because you got nowhere to go. Even if you take your fancy car out against all odds there’s no one on the roads to envy you. Lamborghini in the garage- just another piece of junk.
  8. Economies based on inequalities, greed and profiteering from all above mentioned commodities dying a painful death. Exposed, called out, refurbished and reengineered, old economic world order changeth, yielding place to new.
  9. Because now you just need enough money for basic food and a roof that keeps the sun and the wind and rain out. Some place easy to clean, small is good. Less is more.
  10. All that working with your hands is keeping you fit and fear of dying is keeping you healthy. No need to follow celebrity fitness gurus. And now the noble doctor can focus on what is important-saving the world.
  11. The only services you need is police to keep the peace, health workers to keep you alive, sanitation workers to keep you clean and a reasonable government that won’t go nuts on you. And social media to tell you how many are still out there. How many died, how many lived and to reassure you that you are not alone. And maybe for a few words of wisdom.

This is not a virus. This is renunciation of materialism greed inequality exploitation and pollution. This is a new world religion – Spiritualism.
An upgrade to every world religion so far because it is the first ‘prophet-less’ religion. Hallelujah! A millennial revolution like the driverless car!

I imagine this is what Hindu dharma was like in ancient times. A time when Religion did not have its name and Human was not aware of religion. It still isn’t, though. Like eternity it’s teachings have endured the ravages of time, waiting for humanity’s awareness quotient to rise so it’s philosophies can manifest again. A philosophy that includes all philosophies and all faiths.

“Vasudeva Kuttambam”
The world is one family.
Back to the beginning!!

Travelling foods#jump foods

A Saga of Indian foods which took like chain reaction from one left over we decided to convert into another recipe during lockdown.

Names of foods are Indian but if you make a search u will learn lot of indian foods .

On the first day of Lockdown we had Idli Sambhar.
Some Sambhar remained, so the next day we had Medu Vada Sambhar.
The Vada batter became extra, so next night we had Dahi vada.
With the extra Dahi, we had Dahi puri next day.
The extra puris made a fine meal plan of sev batata puri.
The remainder of boiled potatoes gave us Alu Partha with Dahi.
To use up the remaining Dahi, it was Dahi Boondi Raita the next day.
The extra Boondi gave us sev-boondi- kurmura.
The remainder of the sev made it possible to eat tomato-sev sabji the next meal. The tomato puree that was left over catered for Pulav n soup.
The remains of Pulav added to biryani following.The gravy from biryani was added to mixed vegetables and chappati.Daal was then made to finish the extra chappatis.
The remainder of the Dal was converted to Sambhar…
…… To continue……. Start reading from line one again……

✍🏻. Yours faithfully, An aggrieved lockdown husband !
😞🤔

Why were the magical books drowned .. TEMPEST

Now there is good reason why we might think Prospero is Shakespeare: he does act like a playwright, insofar as he puts on a show for others that is a false reality, created through music, actors (the spirits) and what the spirits say (such as in the harpy scene). He also literally puts on a kind of theatre performance in the form of a masque for Ferdinand and Miranda. And his speech right before the bit quoted above about how he’ll give up his “rough magic” certainly sounds like the “magic” could refer to the power of theatre, or of fiction generally:

Now prime ministers and presidents facing corona virus were Captains of the Titanic;

  • Countries have become Titanic …..If There isn’t any iceberg.
  • It’s a fake iceberg.
  • There was an iceberg but it’s in a totally different ocean.
  • People say it’s the biggest iceberg.
  • The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon.
  • There is an iceberg but we didn’t hit the iceberg.
  • We hit the iceberg but the damage will be repaired very shortly.
  • I knew from the beggining there was an iceberg, long before people called it an iceberg.
  • The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg.
  • We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats.
  • Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them.
  • We don’t have any lifeboats, we’re not lifeboat distributors.
  • Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats.
  • I really don’t think we need that many lifeboats.
  • We have lifeboats and they’re supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers’ lifeboats.
  • The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship.
  • Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.
  • I’m an expert on icebergs I’ve got lots of friends who deal with icebergs, some of the best, really good ice people who know ice.
  • Summer will come and the iceberg will disappear, it will go away, like magic.
Virus has swallowed all magic

My Aunty says You read it So i decided to share too..

Sorry if you have read before.

Read in leisure, a little long .. but will make you laugh:

How grandchildren perceive their grandparents

  1. I was in the bathroom, putting on my makeup, under the watchful eyes of my young granddaughter, as I’d done many times before. After I applied my lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, “But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!” I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye….
  2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 72. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, “Did you start at 1?”
  3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, “Who was THAT?”
  4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like. “We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods.” The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, “I sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”
  5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo and I said, “No, how are we alike?” “You’re both old,” he replied.
  6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather’s word processor. She told him she was writing a story.
    “What’s it about?” he asked.
    “I don’t know,” she replied. “I can’t read.”
  7. I didn’t know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying, “Grandma, I really think you should try to figure out some of these colors yourself!”
  8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, “It’s no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights.”
  9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, “I’m not sure.” “Look in your underwear, Grandpa,” he advised “Mine says I’m 4 to 6.” (WOW! I really like this one — it says I’m only ’38’!)
  10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, “Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today.” The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. “That’s interesting.” she said. “How do you make babies?” “It’s simple,” replied the girl. “You just change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.”
  11. Children’s Logic: “Give me a sentence about a public servant,” said a teacher. The small boy wrote: “The fireman came down the ladder pregnant.” The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. “Don’t you know what pregnant means?” she asked. “Sure,” said the young boy confidently. ‘It means carrying a child.”
  12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog’s duties.
    “They use him to keep crowds back,” said one child.
    “No,” said another. “He’s just for good luck.”
    A third child brought the argument to a close. “They use the dogs,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrants.”
  13. A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. “Oh,” he said, “she lives at the airport, and whenever we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we’re done having her visit, we take her back to the airport.”
  14. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things, but I don’t get to see him enough to get as smart as him!
  15. My Grandparents are funny, when they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame their dog.

SEND THIS TO OTHER GRANDPARENTS, ALMOST GRANDPARENTS, OR HECK, SEND IT TO EVERYONE. IF THEY’RE NOT ALREADY GRANDPARENTS, MAYBE SOME DAY THEY’LL GET LUCKY AND BECOME ONE!