Friday, December 15, 2006

Who Are Those Two Women?

Wife Lois and I went to a pizza place that was ranked as top notch by the local news paper. We ordered our pizza and then went to the back of the room to wait.

On the wall was painted a mural that was over ten feet long. The theme of the place was New York Pizza and the painting was of a subway. There were two dozen people standing in front of and in a train. We could identify about half of the figures: Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Mohammed Ali, Gandhi, and Jesus.

We could not identify any of the people in the train. When the waitress brought the pizza, I asked her who the two women were in the last window of the train. She said, "The one on the right is me!"

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The mural artist had painted some of the pizza place employees in the train.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Wrong Number!

I was sitting by the fireplace when the telephone rang. It was a telephone survey.

The young voice asked me prioritize the radio stations I had listened to in the last week. I gave her the names of four stations.

She then asked, "How old are you?"

"65," I said.

There was a long pause. "Are you still there?" I said.

"How old?"

"65!" I replied.

"Is there anyone in the house between the age of 21 and 64?"