Jokes for all
Feel free to browse the collection of tall tales, yarns and downright lies. They are all family safe - the test I apply is "would I tell this to someone's grandmother?" If no, I don't use it. (That doesn't mean i don't appreciate a dirty joke, but I don't think they're appropriate for broadcast on the radio - you never know who is listening or how old they are or what their attitudes to dirty jokes amounts to. )
Most Important Question
In a remote village in Sierra Leone, West Africa, I befriended Alpha,one of the local men on our building crew.
Alpha was impressed with my tool set and was amazed to find a woman working construction. He'd bring extra rice and greens for lunch, andwe'd sit and talk.
He asked about my husband, and I told him I wasn't married. Alpha said he wanted sons and that he'd marry soon. He wondered whether I'd stayin his country, and then he surprised me by saying he had an important question for me.
I was nervous about his impending marriage proposal, and the next day Alpha was solemn as he asked me if I was ready to answer his question.
I nodded. "When you go back to America," he said, "may I have your trowel?"
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