Saturday, December 6, 2003

NETPICK
Bad news

One day Larry visited his friend Paddy and ask him for a favour. "Paddy my friend", he said. "I'm going on holiday for a few weeks and I wanted to know if you could come around a couple of times a day to check up on my elderly ma, and feed my cat".

"No problem", replied Paddy. "You go and have a good time".

So the next day Larry left and headed for the sunny Florida. However, after a week of him being there, he received a phone call from Paddy. "Everything's ok over here", Paddy said.

"Except you're cat. It's dead"!

"Oh no", Larry said in a shocked voice, "You could have been a bit more sensitive Paddy"!

"What do you mean?", replied Paddy.

"Well, one day you could have rang me up and told me that my cat had climbed the tree. The next day you could have told me that it had gone even higher up the tree and refused to come down. On the third day you could have told me that the cat had lost its grip and had fallen from the tree and had to be taken to the vet because of a broken leg. Then on the fourth day you could have told me that it died peacefully in the vet clinic," explained Larry.

So Paddy apologised and another week went by, when one day Larry got another phone call, it was Paddy again.

"All right Larry", he said. "Everything's ok here, except your ma — she's climbed the tree and refuses to come down!"

"I'm sorry," said the clerk in the flower shop, "We don't have potted geraniums. Could you use African violets instead?"

Replied the customer sadly, "No, it was geraniums my wife told me to water while she was gone."

A woman goes to the police station to report that her husband was missing. "Can you give me a description of him?" asked the officer.

"He's short and bald and skinny and wrinkled and wears dentures and glasses," answered the woman. "Come to think of it, most of him was missing before he himself was."

(Culled from the Net by Sunil Sharma)