The woman in white behind the desk looks at him with a puzzled look on her face and says, "Wait one minute, please." She then looks in her manual thinking that there might be a cut off age for donations, but she could not find one. So she returns her attention to the elderly man and gives him a jar. She then points him to a door. Slowly, he ambles across the room and shuffles in closing the door quietly behind him.
Thirty minutes passes and then another thirty. By now the nurse was uncomfortable and got worried. She went to the door and asked: "Is everything in there OK?"
Again she hears heavy breathing from inside.
Not being able to resist, she opens the door fearing what she might see. The old man is all bent over. "Are you alright?" she quickly asks the wretched looking old fellow.
Slowly he replies, "Well, I tried with my right hand." He is by now gasping for air, but he goes on: "Oh yes, then I tried with my left. Ah, than I tried with my right one more time, but I'll be damned if I can get the lid off this jar lady!
The stunned umpire shouted, "No, Mr. President! I said, "Throw the first PITCH!'"
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