Helping cry

A little girl was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent’s demand to know where she had been.

The little girl replied that she had stopped to help her friend, whose bicycle was broken in a fall.

“But you don’t know anything about fixing bicycles,” her mother responded.

“I know that,” the girl said. “I just stopped to help her cry.”

Image of a 1982 British postage stamp featuring the Christmas carol “The Holly and the Ivy” courtesy: https://themusicstamps.com/