Airport Mistletoe

[Rodgera]

It was the beginning of December. The trip had gone reasonably well,
and he was ready to go home. The airport on the other hand had turned
a tacky red and green with loudspeakers blared annoying elevator
renditions of cherished Christmas carols.

Being someone who took Christmas very seriously, and being slightly
tired, he was not in a particularly good mood.

Going to check in his luggage, he saw hanging mistletoe. Not real
mistletoe, but very cheap plastic with red paint on some of the
rounder parts and green paint on some of the flatter and "pointier"
parts, that could be taken for mistletoe only in a very Picasso sort of way.

With a considerable degree of irritation and nowhere else to vent it,
he said to the lady attendant, "Even if I were not married, I would
not want to kiss you under such a ghastly mockery of mistletoe."

"Sir, look more closely at where the mistletoe is."

(pause)

"Ok, I see that it's above the luggage scale, which is the place
you'd have to step forward for a kiss."

"That's not why it's there."

(pause)

"Ok, I give up. Why is it there?"

"It's there so you can kiss your luggage goodbye."

----------- Today's saying or thought -------------------------

The healthiest part of a donut is the hole. Unfortunately, you
have to eat through the rest of the donut to get there.

[rrich]

Painted on the wall of a donut shop in New Rochelle, New York. (About 60 years ago)

'As you amble on through life brother,
look to the donut and not the hole'

[Handyjack]

I remember seeing something similar on the wall of the doughnut shop at Chadstone shopping centre in the 60s or 70s.
"Keep you eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole". I am sure the whole verse was longer but after almost 45 years I cannot recall the rest. There was also two characters each holding a doughtnut, one of the doughnuts was normal, the other was thin with a big hole.

[Boringgeoff]

Comes from The Doughnut song by Burl Ives.

[rrich]

I remembered!

'As you amble on through life brother,
what ever your goals may be,
look to the donut and not the hole'