"And he forgot?"
"Oh, no, he sent it. 'My heartfelt congratulations to you on this joyous occasion,' he said."
"Well, wasn't that all right?"
"It was fine, Couldn't have been improved on. Only the trouble was that in one of his distrait moments he sent it, not to Mrs. Arkwright but to another friend of his, a Mrs. Cartwright, and her husband had happened to die that morning. Diabetes. Very sad. We were all very sorry about it, but no doubt the telegram cheered her up."
(from Pigs Have Wings, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
1 comment:
HAhah
that's great
it reminds me of where the daughter texts her mom that their aunt died. A few mixtures later, the daughter gets a family group text from her mom that says, "I heard about Aunt So-N-So. LOL."
The daughter quickly texts her mom and writes, "Mom! LOL means lots of laugher!" The mother writes back, "Oh no! I thought it meant lots of love! I just sent that out to the entire family!"
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