April 23 Humor
* A young man returning a library book about movie stars of the silent film era opened it to a photograph of the Vamp queen Theda Bara and pointed. “Was she really a sex symbol in the 1920’s?” he asked. “Yes she was,” the librarian answered. The teenager studied the photograph. “Boy,” he said finally, “no wonder you people had a depression.”
# We had a customer with a real record of slow pay. When his order came in for one replacement part we decided to send it “COD” by UPS. Unfortunately, our clerk misunderstood the system and listed us as the customer and the customer as the shipper. They picked up the package and then delivered it back to us in a day. To get it though we had to first pay the $80 for the part and the amount we paid was credited to our deadbeat customer.
# My two sons, who are 6’8″ tall, consume a tremendous amount of food and drink. Out to dinner one night in one of our favorite eateries which has a policy of free refills on beverages, my older son was keeping the waitress very busy. As the harried waitress came to the table and put the ninth refill of Coke in front of my son, she asked, “Can I get you an IV?”