Ted Toth
Elite Veteran
Location: Myrtle Beach S.C.
| A mugger approached a very well-dressed and dignified lawyer on a
deserted street one night:"Gimme your wallet and the keys to your
car!"
The lawyer shook his head and said in a patronizing tone: "Do you
have ANY idea what it's like to walk in my shoes or wear my clothes? I
have more responsibility than you could imagine. I have a fmaily and a
firm with a hundred employees. I am in charge of it all! Look at these
clothes! Do you know what I have to earn to WEAR a $3,000 suit like
this? Look at this fifty dollar necktie! And these cufflinks! Now try to
imagine what it is like to walk in these thousand dollar shoes! If you
DID know, you would not mug me!"
The mugger looked at the pinstriped suit, the silk tie, the white shirt and
the polished black business shoes worn by the lawyer.He started to
cry."I...I'm sorry!" he said. You're right!!"And he pointed the gun at the
lawyer."I don't want your wallet anymore or your car!"
"Now that's a sensible decision!" said the lawyer.
"NO! NO!" said the mugger. "I changed my mind! You convinced me! I
have to UNDERSTAND! Now take off your clothes and hand them
over!"
The stunned lawyer begged and pleaded, but the mugger just pointed
the gun. The lawyer finally was forced to take off his polished shoes
and his socks, and then his business suit, shirt, cufflinks, suspenders
and tie. Finally he had stripped naked and the mugger put on the
lawyer's clothes.
The mugger looked surprised.
"Ya know? I still don't get it! I'll take your car and your wallet, too!"
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing. |
