BRIEF CONVERSATIONS

 1. Me: “I am going mad.”

Akhila: “Why?”

Me: “I don’t know, I’m just going mad.”

Akhila: “But that you’ve always been.”

Thanks

2. Shumita is reading a book of quirky quotes to her 7-year old son, Raghav.

Raghav: “ I’ll give this book to Nanu.”

Shumita: “Why?”

Raghav: “Nanu is nutty.”

Et tu, Raghav!

3. I ask Shiven, my 11 year old grandson, “Do you think I am nuts?”

Shiven: “No, I think you are amazingly funny.”

Watch this boy. He is going to be a very successful diplomat.

4. Cmde Malia’s jam… sorry, gem.

A naval officer undergoing training in UK is dating a British girl. Since his pocket is not overly jangling with coins, he takes her to a pub where they should be serving free snacks. To make sure he asks, “Do you serve nuts?”

Bartender: “Yes, yes, we don’t care. We serve all alike, nuts or sane.”

I could go to that pub.

5. One for 'resuming golf' times. A course shares its boundary with a lunatic asylum. A golfer’s ball goes close to the fence where an asylum inmate is intently watching.

Inmate: “Excuse me sir, what are you doing?”

Golfer: “ I am playing golf.”

Inmate: “And pray, sir, what do you have to do?”

Golfer: “You see this ball. I am trying to put this in the hole on that yonder green.”

Inmate: “ Hmm, I see. Come in and join us. We are all like that only.”

I think I'll stick to Solitaire.