Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife.

Tearfully she explained, "It's the druggist.

He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to

call multiple times before he would even answer the phone."

Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the

druggist and demand an apology. Before he could say more

than a word or two, the druggist told him, "Now, just a

minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm

failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without

breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that

I had locked the house with both house and car keys inside

and had to break a window to get my keys. Then, driving a

little too fast, I got a s! peeding ticket. Later,when I was

about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire. When

I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting

for me to open up. I got the store opened and started

waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was

ringing off the hook.

"Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash

register drawer to make change, and they spilled allover the

floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the

nickels and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I

cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me

stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume

bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke.

Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing wi! th no let up, and I

finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted

to know how to use a rectal thermometer.

"And believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was

tell her."