Posted By: Sheri (New Board: ForeignJobs) on 'Humor'
Title:     IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
Date:      Wed Nov 24 14:35:17 1999

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered.  Getting back 
together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly 
mother.  

The first said, "I built a big house for our mother."  

The second said, I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."

The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat.  You remember how mom 
enjoyed reading the Bible?  And know you she can't see very well.  So I sent 
her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible.  It took elders in the 
church 12 years to teach him.  He's one of a kind.  Mama just has to name 
the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it."

Soon thereafter, mom sent out her letters of thanks:

"Milton," she wrote one son, "The house you built is so huge.  I live in
only one room, but I have to clean the whole house."

"Gerald," she wrote to another, "I am too old to travel.  I stay most of the
time at home, so I rarely use the Mercedes.  And the driver is so rude!"

"Dearest Donald," she wrote to her third son, "You have the good sense to
 know what your mother likes.  The chicken was delicious."



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