Better Late Than Never
Story★★“Hurry up!” I yelled to my niece. We were running late for the movies, and she hadn’t even gotten in the car.
“It’s better to get there late than not at all,” she chided.
“That’s great advice. Did your mother teach you that?”
“No,” she said. “That’s what the cop told Mommy last week when he pulled us over.”
Patricia Stiles, Lancing Michigan, Reader’s Digest, 2008 pg 195.
The point
A girl uses a police officer's excuse for being late to justify her own tardiness.
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Humorous
To tell aloud
under a minute · 69 words