My young son asked what the highest number I had ever counted to was. I didn’t know, but I asked about his highest number. It was 5,372.

“Oh,” I said. “Why did you stop there?”

“Church was over.”

—Joanne Weil, as told by Mike and Amy Nappa, Bore No More! (Group Publishing), p. 7; submitted by Clark Pfaff, Granby, Connecticut