The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to pronouns to protect the innocent – and because I don’t remember half of them. Hey, it’s been over twenty years, give me a break.
He was working in a store where, among other things, repairs were made to electronic devices.
She had brought in such a device for repair and had now come back to pick it up. She gave her name and/or a claim check.
He went and found the device. A book shelf size stereo radio. It had input jacks to allow another audio device without its own speaker set to be played though this radio. You know, a device like one of those new-fangled compact disc players. The radio also had an auxiliary, 120 volt, receptacle to make it unnecessary to find a separate outlet for the CD player.
He wrapped the cord of the radio around itself to keep it from tangling. Then he plugged the plug into the aforementioned auxiliary receptacle so it would not dangle while she carried the radio to her car. While doing so he joked, “If you plug this in here it won’t use as much electricity.”
She was pleased to learn this money saving technique.
He felt the need to confess that he had just been joking.
She looked disgusted and began to write the check to pay for the repair.
He told her that it would be twenty dollars. Then he added, “Of course, since this is a stereo radio, that will be twenty dollars for each side.”
She started to change the check to forty dollars.
He stopped her and, again, told her that he was just joking.
She completed the check for twenty dollars, took her repaired radio and left the store.
About two minutes later she came back into the store. She walked rapidly past him to another store employee. As she passed him she said, “I have a question, and I’m not going to ask you!”
Now what do you suppose got into to her?