Wood Eye

"Chu & Stu"

I was expecting my Asian friend Chu to arrive
at the airport and want to be picked up at the
same time that I had a pressing commitment elsewhere.

I simply couldn't be in two places at once, but
I couldn't get out of my previous commitment. What to do?

Then I remembered that my friend Stuart had
offered several times to help me if he ever
could in any way. Maybe he could solve my
problem. So I called him up, explained my
dilemma to him, and asked him,

"Please, Stu, meet Chu."

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"Wood Eye"

Dobbins lost his eye in an accident and couldn't
afford the price of a glass eye. So he carved one
out of wood. But he was so self-conscious that
he never left the house.

Finally, his friend Eddy came over and forced him
to go out. "There's a dance over at the club," he
said. "So what if one of your eyes is made out of wood?"

"All right," said Dobbins, "but if anybody makes
fun of my eye I'm leaving."

He went to the dance and stood around, trying to
build up his courage. And then he saw a woman
standing alone in the corner. She was very
attractive, but she had a hunchback.

"She's worse off than me," Dobbins thought. "The
least I can do is ask her to dance."

He walked across the crowded dance floor and
approached the girl. "Would you care to dance?" he asked.

"Would I?!" she exclaimed.

"That does it," he shouted, "Hunchback! Hunchback!"
Received on Wed Feb 27 02:59:40 2008