A Husband Was Met At The Door

 

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 was waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the damn phone was ringing off the hook.”

He continued,

“Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make a change, and they spilt all over 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 with 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.”