DailySusan Humor Blog

CROSSED SIGNALS

All weekend in ‘’See the Rabbits, Iowa’’ (OK . . . Cedar Rapids), I was worried that Maddy, 4, would see the cross-dresser who had been frequently spotted in our motel. He/she was apparently staying a few doors down from our contingent of softball families there for a big regional tournament. He/she had conversed pleasantly with other members of our party, saying that he/she was in town for a ‘’recital.’’

I just didn’t want Maddy Motormouth to run into him/her and do what Maddy Motormouth does best -- say something hysterical and very loud -- and hurt the person’s feelings.

But you kind of couldn’t miss him/her. Our fellow travelers described him/her as being immensely tall, made taller by a Marge Simpson beehive, with a deep voice, wearing a really frilly red dress, and high-soled flipflops -- with hairy toe knuckles plainly evident.

I don’t even want to THINK what Maddy would have had to say. Luckily, we never saw the person.

Then a friend told what HER daughter said, at age 6, when she saw a cross-dresser in a downtown Omaha restaurant.

The child said excitedly:

‘’MOMMY! MOMMY! DID YOU SEE?!?!?’’

Her mother cringed and wondered how she was ever going to be able to explain.

But then the child continued:

‘’THAT WAS THE PRETTIEST EYE MAKEUP I EVER SAW!!!!!’’

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Prayer request: We praise You and thank You, Lord, for the recovery from a near-fatal electrocution suffered June 28 by a friend’s friend, a young father named Ken. Over the weekend, he came out of a coma, squeezed his father’s hand, and cried with his wife. We join the family in rejoicing, pray for full healing, and thank You so much, Father, for showing Your omnipotent power in mercy and healing. (Psalm 29:4)