[3164] in Humor
timely story (aff)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Wood)
Wed Apr 12 17:41:18 2000
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:34:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Wood <chekov@space.mit.edu>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
:-)
-alan
A man walks into the market followed by his ten-year-old son. The kid is
spinning a 25 cent piece in the air and catching it between his teeth. As
they walk through the market someone bumps into the boy at just the wrong
moment and the coin goes straight into his mouth and lodges in his throat.
He immediately starts choking and going blue in the face and Dad starts
panicking, shouting and screaming for help. A middle-aged, fairly
unremarkable man in a gray suit is sitting at a coffee bar in the market
reading his newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the
commotion he looks up, puts his coffee cup down on the saucer, neatly folds
his newspaper and places it on the counter. He gets up from his seat and
makes his unhurried way across the market. Reaching the boy (who is still
standing, but just barely) the man carefully takes hold of the kid's
testicles and squeezes gently but firmly. After a few seconds the boy
convulses violently and coughs up the 25 cent piece, which the man catches
in his free hand. Releasing the boy, the man hands the coin to the father
and walks back to his seat in the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon
as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill effects, the father
rushes over to the man and starts effusively thanking him. The man looks
embarrassed and brushes off the father's thanks. As the man is about to
leave, the father asks one last question: "I've never seen anybody do
anything like that before - it was fantastic - what are you, a surgeon or
something like that?" "Oh, good heavens, no", the man replies, "I work for
the IRS."
