A few weeks after a young man had been employed, he was called into the Human Resources administrator's office.
"What is the meaning of this?" the personnel officer asked. "When you applied for this job, you told us you had three years experience. Now I've discovered this is the first position you've ever held."
"True," the young man answered with a smile. "In your advertisement you said you wanted a person with imagination."
An indigent client who had been injured in an accident went looking for a lawyer to represent him without cost.
One lawyer told him that he would take the case on contingency.
When the client asked what "contingency" was, the lawyer replied,
"If I don't win your lawsuit, I don't get anything. If I do win your lawsuit, you don't get anything."
Many years ago, when my 9 year old daughter was 3, we went to our usual Sunday morning church service. We were seated and waiting for the service to begin, when this woman walked by us in a really bright, gaudy dress. My husband, who never says anything about anyone, even made a comment about how "loud" the dress was.
After the service was over, we were standing outside the church chatting with another couple. I couldn't see my daughter and then I noticed her standing right next to (practically on top of) the woman with the dress.
When I asked her what she was doing, she said "I'm trying to hear this dress mom. Dad said it was really loud, but I can't hear it."
Everyone within earshot, with the exception of my husband and the woman in the dress burst out laughing. My husband wanted to crawl in a hole, and I have to say I never saw that particular dress worn again.
Penny, a good Assessment Nurse was awakened at 4 a.m. to make a house call. She reluctantly got dressed and braved a snowstorm.
After the examination, she told the patient to send immediately for his lawyer and relatives and friends and make a will.
When she got home and told her husband of what she had seen and done her husband asked, "Was the patient that bad?"
Penny said, "No, I just didn't want to be the only sucker called out on a night like this."
"The Purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley
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