I asked old Maud how she lost her husband. She told me her sad story…
"Well, he needed a blood transfusion, but his blood type was not on record, so the doctors asked me if I knew what it was, as they urgently needed to know, in order to save my Norman’s life.
Tragically, I’ve never known his blood type, so I only had time to sit and say goodbye.
I’ll never forget how supportive my Norman was.
Even as he was fading away, he kept on whispering to me, “Be positive, be positive!”
I know it’s sad when you have to have jokes explained, but this one is going over my head and I don’t like it when that happens. Please someone put me out of my misery.
ManjiB --I think the “mystery creature” doesn’t have anything to do with the joke. The joke is that we used to say "turn of the LIGHT and go to sleep (because perhaps were reading a good book). Who reads anymore? (I do and a few others). Now it’s more likely to be “turn of the PHONE and go to sleep” ( lots of folks are mesmerized by their phones).
