After years of hard and dedicated service to his Company, Smith was being appointed at an elegant reception as the new Director. It was a small function where his wife Janie, a Home Executive and some of the wives of the other persons in top management were also present. In an adjacent room, the wife of ...

Queen Victoria was once at a diplomatic reception in London. The guest of honor was an African chieftain. All went well during the meal until, in the end, finger bowls were served. The guest of honor had never seen a British finger bowl and no one had thought to brief him beforehand about its purpose. ...

Sheena was a happy, artistic girl, a girl with one big ambition - to play the drums in a band. But one big obstacle lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band Sheena had to practice a lot, but she lived next door to a lot of old people - ...

One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night. "Could you possibly give us a room here?" the husband asked. The clerk, a ...