My wife and I were watching a show on The Learning Channel titled, "A Dog's World." One segment focused on dogs practice of urinating everywhere to define who they are and whose territory it is, among many other things. "Basically," the narrator said, "dogs are leaving each other messages." I looked at my wife and said, "So I guess we could call it p-mail." Send this story to a friend 1 LETTING GO During the Persian Gulf War, I was assigned to go to Saudi Arabia. As I was saying good-bye to my family, my three-year-old son, Christopher, was holding on to my leg and pleading with me not to leave. "No, Daddy, please don't go!" he kept repeating. We were beginning to make a scene when my wife, desperate to calm him, said, "Let Daddy go and I'll take you to get a pizza." Immediately, Christopher loosened his death grip, stepped back and in a calm voice said, "'Bye, Daddy." Craig S. Kunishige in Reader's Digest Send this story to a friend 2 ONE THING When my sister teased her four-year-old daughter by suggesting she liked a boy in her kindergarten class, the little girl was quite indignant. "No mummy, I don't" she replied, "because he's only interested in one thing." Shocked, my sister cautiously asked what that might be. "Power Rangers, of course," said the toddler. WEiRD ALPHA Mailing List Send this story to a friend 3