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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
8 H! u U* U; R0 y audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* f8 Z! y' J" y8 M books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
n9 i" [1 H2 g" F) u- j# x/ d8 X, P lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ! o @2 b" i" B+ {
little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
3 K1 N! t' Q- ~( E the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
+ n( Q- _0 l7 q4 {* s, I7 L bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
/ D! o9 d* L" H9 X question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 1 G* w4 c4 W6 n! _ H
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
" [& J' u8 l3 }2 U* B4 W8 S over after setting a cast on a patient?" ! y0 \0 C; A# X" c0 u
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
7 a3 g" U; b5 Q( Z! O U trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to z( \1 t2 M+ s' H
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of + e/ p% u5 ^4 {+ r0 `( p
plaster."
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5 q- U8 `& a0 w& n* j* k7 } "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ c0 F+ }+ S `1 \
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
! a7 x6 D& h ]) f I2 `: w8 z1 p leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
1 O5 s8 _" A$ H9 k* } "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 5 c+ D% Q7 |5 A
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a + X6 G; X5 e& p
year they send us a complete dick." |
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