Graduates Welcome To The Real World Story

Story title: Graduates Welcome To The Real World
By: Reader's Digest

     Congratulations, school leaves and graduates. Welcome to the real world where there are no end of term breaks and Christmas holidays start on the night of December 24. Some of your predecessors have compiled some wise bits of advice. They go like this:

Blood Brothers Story

Story title : Blood Brother Story
By: Readers' Digest

   Louis Soto drove more than one thousand miles so he could roll up his sleeve and give to the blood bank in a faraway city.
    He wants to give blood in every state capital in the USA. He has already given blood in every major city and town in his home state of Virginia. To date he has personally given more than one hundred liters of blood over 30 years.

Cursing And Swearing Story

Story title: Cursing And Swearing Story
By: Marian Wise in Reader's Digest

   A little old lady went into a pet shop and wanted to buy a parrot But the owner of the store told her."Oh, you don't want him. He uses some pretty terrible language. Why don't you get a puppy or a cat?"
     "No. I want that parrot, " the lady insisted, and put her money on the counter. The owner shrugged his shoulders and made the sale.    

The Mystery of the Mop Story

Story title: The Mystery of the Mop

Everyone at the State University knew that Donner Hall had the best parties. All night dancing and beer guzzling attracted the largest weekend crowds by far especially on the notorious second floor. By midnight every Friday and Saturday, the entire second floor was three inches deep in smashed beer cans, empty wine bottles, and stale potato chips.
   But by about 7:00 a.m. the next morning, all of the garbage was removed. The second floor residents assumed the conscientious school janitors came bright and early. before anyone woke up, to sweep up the mess.

Being Proud Of A Handicap by reader's Digest

Story title: Being Proud Of A Handicap
By: Reader's Digest
Written by Ethel Chapman

     A little boy had broken his leg and had to use a crutch. Sometimes he forgot about it and tried to run and then he would fall and hurt himself. How he hated that crutch !

You Can't Hide Happiness story by Reader's Digest

Story title: You Can't Hide Happiness
By: Reader's Digest
Writer Nina Fischer
    My dad was a carpenter and he never liked to get dressed up into nice clothes. But when my mother died, Dad bought a handsome suit and was dressed to the teeth as he went heart broken to her funeral.

Slow Starters Can Win Story by Reader's Digest

Story title: Slow starters Can Win
By: Reader's Digest

      There is a gallery of famous people who were slow starters. Winston Churchill seemed so dull as a boy that his father thought that when he grew up, he would not be able to earn a living in England.

STORY: White Less Defined by Reader's Digest

Story title: White Less Defined
By: Reader's Digest


   Lillian Carter, the lively mother of President Jimmy Carter, had set up an interview with an aggressive woman reporter who made it clear with her very first question that she intended to take measure of this sharp tongued little woman and her upstart son.
    "Your son," the reporter began, "has been traveling the United States, telling people not to vote for

STORY : Criticizing The Lord from Reader's Digest

Story title: Criticizing The Lord
from Reader's Digest


Mother Teresa of India often gives people unexpected advice. When a group of American teachers visited her in Calcutta, they asked her for some practical points to take home to their families.
   "Smile at your wives,"she told them. "Smile at your husband."
    Thinking perhaps that the advice was a bit too simplistic, coming from an unmarried person, one of them asked, " Are you married?"