Wow...That's just Crappy!!! (No Pun Intended)

Barbara- --oh my Goodness, you poor woman! Does this mean surgery or other methods to get things back where they need to be? Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help out!

This is how my heart was broken

Angela skipped home from school, silently reciting the joke she had learned that day, lest she forget the words or God forbid, the punchline. Today's joke was a good one and she couldn't wait to try it out on her family at dinnertime. Racing into the house, she dumped her book bag on her bed, petted Scraps, the family dog, and headed into the kitchen to wash up and help her mom with dinner. Her mother handed her the potato peeler and pointed to the six spuds sitting in the sink. The two worked silently for a few minutes, Angela continuing to recite the joke to herself while her mother muttered under her breath. She wasn't saying anything in particular, just thinking through the many thoughts that cluttered her brain pushing for an escape route.

"Hey mom," Angela said, breaking the silence between them. "I learned a new joke today at school." "Oh really," her mother replied. "What is it?" The muttering under her breath continued.

"A blind man walks into a grocery store with his seeing eye dog. He stops in the middle of the store, picks up his dog by the tail and starts swinging him around in circles over his head. The store manager approaches him and asks, 'Sir, may I help you with something?' The blind man replied, 'No thanks, I'm just looking around.'" Angela laughed and smiled as she finished the joke. She was so proud that she had remembered all of it.

"Mmmhmm," her mother replied. There was no laughter. "Don't forget to cut the eyes out of those potatoes. The eyes are toxic, you know."

Angela continued to peel the potatoes, confused at her mother's response. She finished her chores and excused herself to start her homework. As she walked back to her bedroom, she felt a pain in her heart and only then did silent tears fall. She was a little girl who simply wanted to make people laugh, but the silence broke her heart.


blehhhh!