There is an old story about a guy that came home to find his wife sobbing and saying that the owner of the town drug store had insulted her. The guy ran down the street and confronted the druggist.
The druggist said, "Sir, please listen to my story. We both live in a small town on the UP of Michigan. Last night, the ice storm knocked out the power to my house so my alarm didn't go off and I woke up an hour late. My house was nearly frozen because the heater blower ran on the electric, and so did the water heater. I took an icewater bath and went to start my car to go downtown to open up the store only to find a dead car battery. The jumper cables and spare battery were at the other end of the yard in the shed where I had left them, so I went out the side garage door to get them, only to slip on the sheet ice and bang my head on the garage door, which promptly shut and locked me out. I went and got the battery and cables, but since I had left my keys in the car, I had to break a window on the garage door to get into the garage, which cut and bloodied my hand and arm. I finally got the car started and got down to the store only to find that in the dark I had picked up the wrong set of keys and the store keys were on the other ring.
I ran back home, got the other set of keys, and finally got the store open nearly two hours late with a long line of people outside waiting for me. The cash register was out of change, so I started breaking apart coin rolls and dropped a quarter on the floor. I bent down to pick up the quarter and when I straightened up I hit my head on the cash register drawer and knocked out all the coins from the drawer onto the floor and put a gash in the back of my head. When I recovered from that I heard a loud crash and found that the little hellion boy one of my customers brought with her ran smack dab into a full shelf of pill bottles, knocking over the entire shelf.
At that moment, sir, your wife came up to me and asked how to use a rectal thermometer, and sorry as I am sir, I told her."
My apologies to the gang for what was a day from hell around here yesterday ... including severely twisting my ankle because I was favoring the leg with the sprained knee. I'll be a bit more circumspect with my comments in the future.
And to the fellow who said I blocked email, I'd like to know what address you used. I do use MailWasher, but I've set the "reject" filter to zero.
And to the fellow who commented on the quality of our company website, I'll pass along your regards to my webmaster-wife {;-)
