Mind Reading Lessons

"What A Bargain"

My wife Carol and I were visiting her 95-year-old
grandfather when he asked us to take him to buy a new hat.

Carol took me aside. "I'm worried that he doesn't
have enough money, and he'll be very embarrassed,"

she said. So I asked the salesperson to tell my wife's
grandfather that whichever hat he chose cost $15.
I would pay the difference.

Grandpa picked out a $60 hat and was charged
$15. After he left, I paid the other $45.

Later he said, "What a bargain! The last one
I bought there cost me $60."

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"Mind Reading Lessons"

One day a young man was visiting the fair. Over to one
side was a small tent, with a sign that said "For 50
dollars I'll teach you to be a mind reader! - Apply within."

So the young man thought that he'd give it a go, and
went inside. Behind a small table inside was an old
man, who looked up when the young man entered
and says, "Ah, you must be here for the mind reading lessons."

"Er, yes," the young man said.

"Well, follow me, and I'll give you your first lesson."

Then the old man goes out the back of the tent and
comes back with a hose. "Here, hold this hose," he said.

"Why?" said the young man.

"It's part of the lesson," replies the old man, "Now, look
in the end and tell me what you see."

So the young man looks into the end of the hose, and
only sees darkness. "I don't see anything," he tells the old man.

Just then the old man turns on a tap, and the hose
shoots water into the young man's face.

"I just knew you'd do something like that." the young
man shouts at the old man.

"There.. you are now a mind reader!" the old man replies,
"That'll be 50 dollars."
Received on Thu Nov 29 07:42:01 2007