Grand Date :-)

Grandpa and Grandma always got very excited when they recalled the old days they were together.
They made a decision, one day to make it "yesterday once more". They made a date on the river bank they used to go when they were young.
The next day, Grandpa got up at 6 a.m. in the morning, dashed to thebank, picked up a big bunch of wild flowers before sunrise, waited there for his sweetheart to come. But Grandpa ended up being disappointed as Grandma never showed up even after sunset.
Grandpa went home in such an anger. He opened the door and saw Grandma lying on the sofa with her pillow. He threw the flowers on the floor and questioned: "Why didn't you come to our date?!!"
Grandma hid her head in the pillow and replied shyly: "Mom didn't allow me to go..."

Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.'

And now I tell my children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the
children in India who would make you starve, if you don't.'