Funniest thing

This month’s winner is JOYCE SOGG of Los Gatos, California:

On a recent tour in Kenya, I was feeling a bit under the weather and decided to stay in my room instead of going to dinner. Shortly after our group had gone to the dining room, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it, a lodge employee brought in several rolls of toilet paper. 

I didn’t quite understand this, as there already was plenty of TP in the bathroom. Nonetheless, I said, “Thank you,” and went back to bed.

The next morning, our group leader asked me if I had received the rolls and black tea he...

This month’s winner is PAULA LA BAR of Modjeska Canyon, CA:

My husband and I are not yet veterans of overseas travel. On our fourth trip to Europe, in 2009, we arrived at the Luzern train station. It was late on a Saturday, so we wanted to get a few provisions.

We gathered a roasted chicken and veggies, then stopped at the cheese counter. When asked what kind of cheese I wanted, I was quite over- whelmed by the selections and replied, “Swiss cheese.”

The worker behind the counter looked at me funny, then said, “It’s ALL Swiss cheese!” 

This month’s winner is PETER OVERMIRE of Greenbrae, CA:

This happened in the Panama Canal way back in 1938, when I was nine years old. I had been traveling in Europe for some months with my mother. She was a lifelong Californian and a true lover of avocados, but avocados were never seen in Europe then.

From Europe, we continued on a 12-passenger Norwegian freighter across the ocean to Panama. The ship stopped in Colón, at the Atlantic end of the canal, to offload some cargo, so the passengers went ashore for a while. To my mother’s delight, she was able to purchase a dozen...