There once was a woman named Brenda
Who crumpled her Pontiac’s fenda.
The cost of repair
Made her say, “I declare,
I’d not planned to become a big spenda.”
It is not known for certain, but the following may, perhaps, refer to the same unfortunate event.
A Sunday School teacher was telling her class the story of God's saving of Lot and his family as he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. When the teacher told how Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, little Johnny piped up, "My mommy looked back and turned into a telephone pole."