• Story Corner: Old Age

    // Gradly // blog, Funny, Jokes, Stories 4 Responses

    Two elderly people living in Trailer Estates, he was a Widower and she a widow, had known each other for a number of years.

    One evening there was a community supper in the big activity center. The two were at the same table, across from one another as the meal went on, he took a few admiring glances at her and finally gathered the courage to ask her, “Will you marry me?”

    After about six seconds of ‘careful consideration’ , she answered “Yes. Yes, I will.”

    The meal ended and, with a few more pleasant exchanges, they went to Their respective places.

    Next morning, he was troubled. “Did she say ‘yes’ or did she say ‘no’?” He couldn’t remember. Try as he might, he just Could not recall. Not even a faint memory. With trepidation, he went to The telephone and called her.

    First, he explained that he didn’t remember as well as he used to. Then he reviewed the lovely evening past. As he gained a little more courage, he inquired, “When I asked if you would marry me, did you say ‘Yes’ or did you say ‘No’?”

    He was delighted to hear her say, “Why, I said, ‘Yes, yes I will’ and I Meant it with all my heart.”

    Then she continued, “I am so glad that you called, because I couldn’t remember who had asked me.”

  • Story Corner: Attitude … !!

    // Gradly // blog, Stories 3 Responses

    Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

    He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

    Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”

    Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

    “Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.

    “Yes, it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut way all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”

    I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

    Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

    After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

    I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, ” If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”

    I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

    “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

    Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’

    “I knew I needed to take action.”

    “What did you do?” I asked.

    “Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘ Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breathe and yelled, ‘ Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them. ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

    Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.


    The moral of this story:

    • You have 2 choices now:
      1. Crib about your daily life and what are you doing and be unhappy …
      2. Enjoy every moment of your life & give in your Best …
    • Keep Smiling Always …

  • Story Corner: Never argue with a woman who reads !!

    // Gradly // blog, Funny, Stories 6 Responses

    One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.
    Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out.
    She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.
    Along comes a Game Warden in his boat.
    He pulls up alongside the woman and says, “Good morning, Ma’am. What are you doing?”
    “Reading a book,” she replies, (thinking, “Isn’t that obvious?”)
    “You’re in a Restricted Fishing Area,” he informs her.
    “I’m sorry, officer, but I’m not fishing. I’m reading.”
    “Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I’ll have to take you in and write you up.”
    “If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with sexual assault,” says the woman.
    “But I haven’t even touched you,” says the game warden.
    “That’s true, but you have all the equipments. For all I know you could start at any moment.”
    “Have a nice day ma’am,” and he left.

    The moral of this story:

    • Never argue with a woman who reads.

  • Story Corner: How Business is done !!

    // Gradly // blog, Funny, Jokes, Stories 3 Responses

    • Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice.
    • Son: “I will choose my own bride!”.
    • Father: “But the girl is Bill Gates’s daughter.”.
    • Son: “Well, in that case…ok”.
    • Next Father approaches Bill Gates.
    • Father: “I have a husband for your daughter”.
    • Bill Gates: “But my daughter is too young to marry!”.
    • Father: “But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank”.
    • Bill Gates: “Ah, in that case…ok”.
    • Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.
    • Father: “I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president”.
    • President: “But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!”.
    • Father: “But this young man is Bill Gates’s son-in-law”.
    • President: “Ah, in that case…ok”.

    This is how business is done!!

    The moral of this story:

    • Even If you have nothing, you can get anything. But your attitude should be positive.