Banking Hiccup

"Sundial"

I was setting up a large, cast aluminum, decorative
sundial in my yard that I had purchased from a garden
catalog.

A neighbor, an old Florida cracker, was leaning on the
fence watching my progress and asked, "What the
heck's that for?"

I explained, "It's a sun dial, see the sun will hit that
small triangular spike and cast a shadow on the face
of the sundial. Then, as the sun moves across the
sky, the shadow also moves across the calibrated
dial, enabling a person to determine the correct time."

My neighbor shook his head and muttered,. "Huh,
what will they think of next?"

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"Banking Hiccup"

While waiting in line at the bank, a coworker developed
a very loud case of hiccups. By the time he reached
the teller's window, the hiccups seemed to have
worsened. The teller took my friend's check and
proceeded to run a computer verification of his account.

After a minute she looked up from her terminal with
a frown and said that she would be unable to cash
his check.

"Why not?" my friend asked incredulously.

"I'm sorry, sir," she replied, "but our computer indicates
that you do not have sufficient funds to cover this amount.
As a matter of fact," she continued, "our records show
your account overdrawn in excess of $5,000."

"It CAN'T be!" he cried. "You have GOT to be kidding!"

"Yes, I am," she answered with a big smile, counting
out his cash. "But you will notice that your hiccups
are gone."
Received on Mon Apr 23 07:10:29 2007