A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.
One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike, she treated herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.
She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village, and went straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor. There was only one other patron in the store: Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.
The woman’s heart skipped a beat as her eyes matched those famous baby-blue eyes. The actor nodded graciously, and the star-struck woman smiled demurely. Pull yourself together! She chideD herself. You’re a happily married woman with three children; you’re forty-five years old, not a teenager!
The clerk filled her order, and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even glancing in Paul Newman’s direction.
When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change, but her other hand was empty. Where’s my ice cream cone? I wonder if I left it in the store? Back into the shop, she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk’s hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight.
With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman. His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin, and he said to the woman,
“You put it in your purse.”
A science teacher asked her students
“Children, if you could own one material, what would it be?”
One girl said, “I would choose gold. It’s worth lots of money and I could buy a Corvette.”
One boy said, “I would want platinum because it’s worth more than gold and I could buy a Porsche.”
The teacher said, “Little Johnny, What would you want?”
Johnny said, “I would want silicone.”
“Why would you want silicone?” Asked the teacher
“Well my mom got some, he replied, “and there’s always a Porsche or Corvette sitting in our driveway.”
A lady lost her purse in a bustling department store.
She searched everywhere she had visited, but just couldn’t find it.
Finally, a little boy approached her and asked, “Ma’am, is this your purse?”
Jubilantly, she grabbed the purse and cried, “Yes! Yes, it is! Thank you so much!”
Then she looked inside and was suddenly confused. “But how strange… when I lost it, I had only a hundred dollar bill, but now I have five twenties!”
The boy replied, “That’s because the last time I returned a lady’s purse, she didn’t have any change for a reward!”
