Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!gawilson From: gawilson@watdaisy.UUCP (Graham Wilson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: a child's dream Message-ID: <6983@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 16:49:20 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6983 Posted: Tue Feb 19 16:49:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Feb-85 07:38:40 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 35 (Remember hearing this on some British comedy show several years back..) Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a normal son, with one exception. Whenever he remembered a dream, the event experienced in the dream would come true. So Mr. and Mrs. Smith were very careful to listen to their son whenever he remembered a dream. One spring morning, the Smith's were sitting down to breakfast, and little Johnny (their son), announced that he had had a dream the night before. The Smiths asked their son of what had happened in the dreamed. The little boy said that daddy died. The Smith's were visibly shaken. Both were convinced that this was Mr. Smith's last day with the family. Mrs. Smith pleaded with her husband not to go to work, but in the end they agreed - if it was going to happen, there was not much they could do about it. So Mr. Smith set off for work, with his wife nagging him to be very careful. At 5:00 PM, Mr. Smith arrived home, alive. Mrs. Smith asked her husband how the day had been. He replied, "Terrible. I was careful driving to work. At work, I took the stairs in case the elevator broke down. I did not eat lunch in case I got food poisoning. I went the whole day without a cup of coffee (for the same reason). I left work early to advoid the rush, and drove no faster than 20 mph. It has been a miserable day, and I am glad it is almost over. How was your day dear?" "Horrible, five minutes after you left, I open the door, and there was the milkman dead on the doorstep!" Graham Wilson University of Waterloo