Henry’s job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier, to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country without paying.
Every evening except on weekends, he used to see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bicycle with a big loaf of old straw on it. When the bicycle reached the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and make him take the straw off and untie it. Then he used to examine the straw very carefully to see whether he could find anything, after which he used to look in all the man’s pockets before he let him tie the straw up again, put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always expecting to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything, ever though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was smuggling something, but he was not able to imagine what it could be.
Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker’s pockets as carefully as he always did, he said to him:
« Listen. I know that you’re smuggling things across this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is that you’re bringing into the country so successfully? I’m an old man, and today’s my last day in this job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire. I promise that i shall not tell anyone else if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling. »
The factory worker did not say anything for some time. Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly, « Bicycles. »
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Two factory workers are talking.
The woman says, "I can make the boss give me the day off."
The man replies, "And how would you do that?"
The woman says, "Just wait and see." She then hangs upside-down from the ceiling.
The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?"
The woman replies, "I'm a light bulb."
The boss then says, "You've been working so much that you've gone crazy. I think you need to take the day off."
The man starts to follow her and the boss says, "Where are you going?"
The man says, "I'm going home, too. I can't work in the dark."
( تقرير عن مشاركة سيئة )، و الموجودة أسفل كل مشاركة .
2008-07-05, 22:28
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