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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ! F, p# B. v; ^% U' l- S6 F
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* F' U; U9 B) `8 m# M books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a3 A' I/ |0 k4 {7 W1 d3 o
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too % @3 e3 [, T1 v/ q/ C% T
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
/ Y# j6 k& y8 Q) Y the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of , ^- }2 {- e& U1 y! v0 G R' c
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual + `8 i$ _ J/ u- L4 J3 o; O% V, c b
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ! t3 w \. v8 G$ k- o0 {
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left " T; J2 G n6 m3 [+ t- O; H
over after setting a cast on a patient?" : Y+ Q6 G Z0 V% B* c4 s) j1 n
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to + a; G% Z4 S- R6 P% [" @# _9 h
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
% L+ i1 j3 ]& w5 }/ H the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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. j& m0 U' P$ W8 _8 J4 r# o "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
$ I3 Z! I3 |- Y- }7 q a the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 1 m% C ?: @8 m8 D; c
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
$ ]! C/ |" Y& e C- d "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all & u/ ^3 i. L, k
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
2 C0 J; {/ i- Z' \" G3 G. a year they send us a complete dick." |
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