Our next support group will take place on Tuesday February 12, 2013 at

6pm (2nd Tuesday of each month).

The support group meeting is FREE

and open to the public.

Please call (508) 853-8180 to find out more information. 

The support group leader is Elaine Kapperman, LICSW.

Ms. Kapperman has many years of experience with grief counseling, elder

and caregiver issues,  coping with illness, EMDR, relaxation techniques, child treatment. She is running Dodge Park support group since 2007.

1) Logical Thinking

A Year 5 teacher was giving her Primary pupils a lesson in developing logical thinking.

"This is the scene," said the teacher.

"A man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help.

His wife hears the commotion, knows he can't swim, and runs down to the bank. Why do you think she ran to the bank?"

A little girl raised her hand and asked, "To draw out all his savings?"

2) Divorce Case

"Mr Edwards, I have reviewed your petition very carefully," the divorce court Judge said, "And I've decided to give your wife £600 a week,"

"That's very fair, your honour," the husband said, "and every now and then I'll try to send her a few quid myself."

3) Whacked

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

4) Hot Blooded Men

A man is lying asleep in bed with his wife. She wakes him and says, "Close the window. It's cold outside," He grunts and turns over.

His wife nudges him again, "Close the window. It's cold outside."

At last he gets up and bangs the window shut, "So now it's warm outside?"

Footnote. The above joke reminds my how fickle humour is. One day I get the above joke - just, but I don't laugh. Another day, when I'm lying in bed with the wife, thinking about how she has a 14 tog duvet, but I only have a 4 tog duvet, the above joke brings a smile to my face.

George, the farmer, had so many children that he ran out of names. So he started calling his kids after something around his farm.

It was the first day of school and the teacher asked each child their name. When he got to one of the farmer George's sons, the boy replied, 'Wagon Wheel.'

The teacher said, 'I need your real name boy, to which the lad replied, 'It's Wagon Wheel, sir....Really.'

The teacher, rather annoyed rejoined, 'All right young man, take yourself right down to the Principal's office this minute.'

The youngster pushed himself out of his chair, turned to his sister and said, 'C'mon, 'Chicken Feed', he ain't gonna believe you, either.'

 In a court in Tralee, deep in County Kerry, Ireland, this conversation is reported to have taken place:

Lawyer: 'At the scene of the accident, Mr O'Brien, did you tell the Garda officer that you had never felt better in your life?'

O'Brien the farmer: 'That's right, sir.'

Lawyer: 'Well then, Mr O'Brien, how is it that you are now claiming you were seriously injured when my client's car hit your cart?'

O'Brien the farmer: 'When the Garda arrived, he went over to my horse, who had a broken leg, and shot him. Then he went over to Darcy, my dog, who was badly hurt, and shot him. When he asked me how I felt, I just thought under the circumstances, it was a wise choice of words to say I've never felt better in my life.'

Old ranch owner John farmed a small ranch in Montana. The Montana Wage and Hour Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his workers and sent an agent out to interview him.

'I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,' demanded the agent.

'Well,' replied old John, 'There's my ranch hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $600 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.'

'That's the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit,' says the agent.

'That would be me,' replied old rancher John.

A man went to his doctor with a problem: "Doc, I'm having trouble remembering things. Yesterday I forgot where I live. The day before that-I think-I went to store and couldn't remember what I needed to buy. And my wife tells me I forget her name all the time. At least I think she told me that. What can I do?"

"First things first," the doctor said. "Pay me in advance."

'Doctor O'Hara,' Joe pleaded, 'I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. You gotta help me, I'm going crazy.'

'Just put yourself in my hands for two years,' said Dr O'Hara, the psychiatrist, 'Come and see me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears.'

'How much do you charge?'

'A hundred dollars per visit.'

'In that case, I'll sleep on it,' answered Joe.

Six months later the doctor met Ranjit in the street.

'Why didn't you ever come to see me again?' asked the psychiatrist.

'For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars,' smiled Ranjit

'Is that so! How?'

'He told me to cut the legs off the bed.'

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