Choice of Birthday Presents
Published Jan 01, 1900

My wife brought me a really nice piano for my birthday. A few weeks later, a friend asked her how I was doing. "Oh," my wife said, "I persuaded him to switch to a clarinet." "How come?" the friend asked. "Well," my wife answered, "because with a clarinet, he can't sing...."
Originally published November 14, 2002.