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8 Sports & Leisure, Thursday, November 25, 2010 Andrew Tutty Humour helps all situations In my first column, I mentioned that I would like to inject a little levity into an otherwise very serious topic. After all, it is through humor that we learn to cope with situations that would otherwise seem insurmountable. I was visiting with my sister in Calgary. A couple of days before Christmas we had acquired four excellent pies. The mere thought of them was enough to start one's mouth watering and potential sugar fix to be fixed. The weather was snowy that afternoon. Carrying the precious cargo, I rushed into the house through the back door. Quick on my heels followed my sister and her two children. How quick I was soon to discover. After entering, I had placed the cardboard tray containing the four delectable treats upon the kitchen floor four stairs up from the landing. I was removing my snow-laden boots when my sister blew in like the wind, kicked off her boots and before I could warn her where I had temporarily placed our bounty, she proceeded to roar up the stairs. Being visually impaired, she did not see the delicate deserts sitting at the top of the stairs and stepped straight onto them, both heels and all toes! She not only demolished one Christmas pie, she strode through two of them. Tragedy you say? Not in the least. A Christmas Miracle! We had two pies remaining! That's fifty percent! Not to mention the sight of my sister with two toe jam pies dripping from her socks. She was both astonished and pie eyed! The laughter was uproarious. The children, my sister and I went into fits of apoplexy at the scene. Where there are pies there is comedy! Andrew Tutty is a member of the Halton Hills Accessibility Advisory Committee with the Town of Halton Hills.