Red in the Face

Vancouver, Canada A woman is taking a ferry from Vancouver to Victoria. She leaves her car to go to the deck. She sits down. Beside her, in a chair, are her newspaper and candy bar. A man in the next chair picks  up the candy and eats it. Then he takes the paper and walk off. The woman is too shocked to speak. Later, she goes to the cafeteria. She sees the man at a table , eating a sandwich. Still angry, she grabs his sandwich and take a bite, without saying a word. She goes back to her car. On the seat are her newspaper and candy bar. She never took them out of the car! She is really red in the face.

Joe came home from work and opened his mailbox. In his mailbox he found a yellow bottle of soap—soap for washing dishes. The dish soap was a free sample from a soap company. The company mailed small bottles of soap to millions of people. It was a new soap with a little lemon juice in it. The company wanted people to try it.  

Joe looked at his free bottle of soap. There was a picture of two lemons on the label. Over the lemons were the words “with Real Lemon Juice.”

“Good!’Joe thought. “A free sample of lemon juice! I’m going to have a salad for dinner. This lemon will taste good on my salad.” Joe put the soap on his salad and ate it. After Joe ate the salad, he felt sick.

Joe wasn’t the only person who got sick. A lot of people thought the soap was lemon and in tea. Later they felt sick, too. Some people had stomaches but felt better in a few hours. Some people felt really sick and went to the hospital. Luckily, no one died from eating the soap.

What can we learn from Joe’s story? Read labels carefully. And don’t eat dish soap for dinner!

   Bus Joke

    One day, a bus stayed in a bus station. The bus driver didn’t come on time. Then, an old man came into the bus. He started to drive the bus. After that, a passenger saw a fat man was following the bus. He told him, “Don’t follow the bus, you can wait for the next one.” The fat man said, “No, I can’t. I’m the bus’ driver.”