POLICE
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station.
As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking,
and I saw a little boy staring in at me.
"Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked.
"It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me
and then the back of the van.
Finally he said, "What'd he do?"
ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins,
I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds.
She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age,
particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs.
One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass.
As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions,
she merely turned and whispered,
"The tooth fairy will never believe this!"
