When Sarah, a sweet nineteen-year-old girl who temporarily lived with our family, applied for a job at the local bank she was called back for a personal interview.

"How did the interview go?" I asked when she returned home.

"It went alright at first," she said.

"At first?"

"Yeah, until the manager asked me if I was hired what would I bring with me to the job everyday?"

"Oh, there's lots of answers—like a good attitude for starters. Did you tell him you always have a good attitude?"

"No," Sarah confessed with a groan. "I told him I'd bring my purse."

—Karen Zacharias
Pendleton, Oregon

Our friend Ernie was hospitalized with severe gall bladder pain. Being admitted at a particularly hectic time, the staff inadvertantly forgot to place the nurse call button beside him.

When the pain became excruciating—too overwhelming to get up and look for the button—our friend used Yankee ingenuity. Ernie picked up the phone, dialed the hospital's main number, and asked for the nurses's station on his floor. Explaining his situation and giving them his room number, help came immediately. For the rest of his hospital stay, Ernie received first-class service.

—Wally Loder
De Land, Florida

The Rowandale church band was meeting for their Christmas service practice. The female pianist, Melanie, was getting more and more flustered as she flipped through her music. Finally, she exclaimed to the other five male band members, "I can't find 'Good Christian Men'!" To which the drummer quipped, "You have a choice of five right here."

—Cheryl Liessens
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Whenever my six-year-old niece, Katie, would be asked her name, her standard response was, "I'm Katie, Pastor Allen's daughter."

Thinking she needed to assert her own identity, Katie's mother encouraged her to simply reply "Katie."

The next day, a man asked her name. "I'm Katie," she replied.

"Oh, you're Pastor Allen's daughter," he said, smiling.

"Well, Dad says so," said Katie, "but Mom's not real sure."

—Rene Stephenson
Grapeland, Texas

	What did you think of this story?
	Please to give us your feedback.

Read more from 'Laughing Matters'

Home  |  People of Faith  |  Stories of Hope  |  Today's Culture
Build Your Faith  |  Laughing Matters  |  Archives  |  Contact Us

				Try Today's Christian Woman Free! Name Street Address City/State/Zip E-mail Address No credit card required. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only. If you decide you want to keep Today's Christian Woman coming, honor your invoice for just $17.95 and receive five more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The trial issue is yours to keep, regardless. Give Today's Christian Woman as a gift Order a gift subscription!

FREE Newsletter Subscribe to the Today's Christian Newsletter    RSS Feed   RSS Help