On a visit to my wife’s native England for our honeymoon, we arrived at London’s Gatwick Airport.
Tania headed for the British-passport control line while I, an American, waited in the foreigners’ line.
When my turn came, the customs officer asked me the purpose of my visit.
“Pleasure,” I replied. “I’m on my honeymoon.”
The officer looked first to one side of me, then the other.
“That’s very interesting, sir,” he said as he stamped my passport. “Most men bring their wives with them.”
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Ever notice how a 4-year-old’s voice is louder than 200 adults?
Several years ago, I returned home from a trip just when a storm hit, with crashing thunder and severe lightning. As I came into my bedroom about 2 a.m., I found my two children in bed with my wife, Karey, apparently scared by the loud storm. I resigned myself to sleep in the guest bedroom that night.
The next day, I talked to the children and explained that it was OK to sleep with Mom when the storm was bad, but when I was expected home, please don’t sleep with Mom that night.
They said OK.
After my next trip several weeks later, Karey and the children picked me up in the terminal at the appointed time. Since the plane was late, everyone had come into the terminal to wait for my plane’s arrival, along with hundreds of other folks waiting for their arriving passengers.
As I entered the waiting area, my son saw me, and came running shouting, “Hi, Dad! I’ve got some good news!”
As I waved back, I said loudly, “What’s the good news?”
Alex shouted, “Nobody slept with Mommy while you were away this time!”
The airport became very quiet, as everyone in the waiting area looked at Alex, then turned to me, and then searched the rest of the area to see if they could figure out exactly who his Mom was.
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Once Bob and Billy got duty at the airport for the assistance to the foregin tourists.
One traveler asked Billy in Spanish, “Where can I find the city bus to downtown?”, but Billy could not answer since he did knew the language.
The traveller repeated the same question in French, German, Japnese, and Russian but Billy couldn`t answer because he didn`t know any of the languages.
Bob asks Billy, “I asked you to learn at least one foreign language and it will help you one day.”
Billy said, “That man learned five languages and couldn`t serve any purpose, then how one language to me would have served any purpose.”
