Over the TEACUPS

FROM THE ARCHIVES

GOURMET CHEF

My five-year-old son Sam, who is a very fussy eater, told me he really enjoyed the garlic bread that we had with dinner the night before. “Your dad made that, isn’t he a good cook?” I said to my son. Sam thought about it for a bit and then replied, “Yeah, he is a good cook. Maybe he should work at Domino’s.” Leah, Palmerston North

HOTLINE

When a new business was opened, I was employed as the receptionist. Anxious to impress our first client, my boss picked up the telephone and carried on an imaginary conversation explaining that we were so busy, it would be the following week before he could be given an appointment. Ending the supposed discussion, he turned to the visitor and apologised for keeping him waiting. “That’s all right,” said the man. “I’ve just come to connect the telephone.” Pettipink, Lower Hutt, March 7, 1983

MISSING POLICEMAN?

I don’t know how the police reacted to this advertisement in our local newspaper: Would the person who removed a copper from 427 Queen St recently please return same. Cadet, Masterton, January 19, 1970

VERSE AND WORSE

My phone remains silent Hour after hour

So why does it ring

As I step in the shower? Joybelles, Lower Hutt, October 21, 1974