MERE MALE

NOT FIT TO USE

Like many of us who bought exercise equipment, my purchases remain unused. My folly become apparent when MM son was giving a tour of the house to his friend. ‘There’s Mum’s exercise bike, he said very seriously, ‘Nobody’s allowed to touch it, not even Mum herself.’ Awww! C. KUIZON, CHRISTCHURCH, NZ.

SHADES OF GREY

The other day I asked MM to clean the bathroom tiles in the shower as I was incapacitated. After about one-and-a-half hours he came to me and told me that he could not remove the grey patch from the shower floor tiles. He told me he scrubbed and scrubbed but the patch would not go away. I went to the bathroom to have a look at the patch and realised he had been scrubbing the shadow from the showerhead. LOL! JOHANNA PURCELL, WURTULLA, QLD.

HATS OFF TO GENIUS

I had to laugh when my elderly uncle explained to me that he hangs a hat behind his front door and puts it on whenever the doorbell rings. Depending on who it is he finds standing at the door he either says: ‘Oh I was just going out,’ or ‘Oh, I’ve just come in.’ MARY GUNAWAN, TWEED HEADS, NSW.

BLINDED BY THE BEAT

We were driving and listening to the radio which was turned up quite loud with one of our favourite songs playing. MM suddenly reached over and turned the music very low. When I asked him why he had done that, he replied ‘I couldn’t see properly with that racket on.’ DIANNE BLANCHARD, WATTLE GROVE, WA.