Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife.
She said with tearful eyes, “It’s the druggist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone.”
Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the druggist and demand an apology.
Before he could say anything, the druggist told him:
“Now, just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I had locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys, OMG… Then, driving a little too fast, I was pulled over by a cop and had a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire. When I finally got to the store a bunch of people was waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was ringing off the hook.
“Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make a change, and they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke.
Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no letup, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer.
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“And believe me, mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her.”
