[Overheard while having breakfast at the food counter.]

- I was shocked when I visited their home. I could not see a book anywhere. How can people not read?
- Appalling. Watch television, I suppose.
- Even when we were growing up we always had books.
- Dreadful!
The waitress gathered the empty dishes and said: " But they have a heart the size of the New York Public Library!"

[photo by jean-claude]