Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door
by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained,
"It's the Chemist. 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 down to confront
the Chemist and demand an apology. Before he could say
more than a word or two, the Chemist told him, "Now, just a minute mate, 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'd 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 speeding ticket.
Later, when I was about three streets from the store, I had a flat tyre."
"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, all the time the damn
phone never stopped ringing."
He continued, "Then I had to break open a bag of pound coins
against the cash register drawer to give change, and
they spilled all over the floor
I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up
the pound coins 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
bottles of expensive perfumes 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, mate, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her."
