Memories

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He was a widower and she a widow. They had known each other for a number of years being high school classmates and having attended class reunions in the past without fail. This 60th anniversary of their class, the widower and the widow made a foursome with two other singles. They had a wonderful evening, their spirits high.

The widower throwing admiring glances across the table. The widow smiling coyly back at him. Finally, he picked up courage to ask her, “Will you marry me?”

After about six seconds of careful consideration, she answered,  “Yes …  Yes I will!”

The evening ended on a happy note for the widower. But the next morning he was troubled. Did she say “Yes” or did she say “No?”

He couldn’t remember. Try as he would, he just could not recall. He went over  the conversation of the previous evening, but his mind was blank. He remembered asking the question but for the life of him could not recall her response. With fear and trepidation he picked up the phone and called her.

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

“Why you silly man, I said ‘Yes. Yes I will.’ And I meant it with all my heart.”

The widower was delighted. He felt his heart skip a beat.

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

The Walls of Jericho

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A school inspector is assigned to the grade 4 class in one of the local schools in Soweto. He is introduced to the class by the teacher, Miss Wesizwe.

She says to the class: “Let’s show the inspector just how clever you are by allowing him to ask you a question.”

The inspector decides to ask a biblical question. He asks: “Class, who broke down the walls of Jericho?” For a full minute there is absolute silence, the children all just stare at him blankly. Eventually Sipho raises his hand, the Inspector points excitedly to him Sipho stands up and says: “Sir, I don’t know who broke down the walls of Jericho, but it wasn’t me” The inspector looks at the teacher for an explanation, she says: Well, I’ve known Sipho since the beginning of the year and I believe that if he says that he didn’t do it, then he didn’t do it.”

The inspector is shocked at the level of ignorance and storms down to the principal’s office and tells him what happened.

The principal replies: “Look I don’t know the boy, but I socialise every now and then with his teacher and I believe her, if she feels that the boy was not involved, then he must be innocent.”

The inspector can’t believe what he is hearing, he grabs the phone on the principal’s desk and dials the Minister of Education and relates the entire episode and asks her what she thinks of the education standard in the school.

The Minister sighs heavily and replies: “Eish wena, you know I’m very busy, I don’t know the boy, the teacher or the principal, just get three quotes, add 50% for me, and have the wall fixed by my brother.”