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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
9 U2 j, @7 _. }' M0 q1 T audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 9 \2 f1 o) I" p& z% y& l
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a8 q! _& q- n1 H. E$ G6 p/ z
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too $ X, Y* R: t* W
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& \. m0 r# f/ N! c
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
# B+ U) j/ ^( F3 |2 ]1 Y3 g bandages." ' ~ R. R. y1 r' s# C
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual % A" V" e3 S+ O x2 B
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
; J& L8 U4 B1 { I: f( ^) ^* e "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
, c: f+ c6 W, b: F over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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# w" W' S( K1 W$ G% C/ ]$ I "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
# [+ p' v" F; x5 x' i trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
+ [/ Z+ [% f8 w the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 8 @7 E+ t+ z, K0 N# u9 G P, n
plaster." # l1 d" u& z. z9 Y
) d/ u8 ~$ ^+ g0 P "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
3 { _" G) ?$ `9 l" I the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the * d8 R0 {5 c0 b5 _) m7 S
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" - R/ n/ e1 n6 y* p
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
& w7 ^7 q3 \% j% n; @/ l the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
6 l5 E) F& ^- H' ~ year they send us a complete dick." |
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