Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed-up the nerve to ask him why the regularity. “I’m foreman of the local sawmill,” he explained.
“Every day, I have to blow the whistle at noon, so I call you to get the exact time.”The operator giggled, “That’s really funny,” she said. “All this time, we’ve been setting our clock by your whistle.”A man has to drive for a few days to get to his new house. After a long and tiring drive throughout the night, the driver decides to pull over on the side of the road to take a nap.
A man knocks on the car’s window and this wakes the driver from his sleep. The man asks the driver what time it is. The driver looks at his watch and replies, “It’s 8 AM” and goes back to sleep.After a while, another man knocks on the car’s window and wakes the driver from his sleep. This man also asks the driver what time it is. The driver replies “It’s 8:05 AM” and goes back to sleep.
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Sure enough, after a while, again, another man knocks on the car’s window and asks the same question. The driver, now annoyed, replies, “It’s 8:07 AM”. He picks up a piece of paper and writes in bold letters “I don’t know what time it is!”, sticks it on the car’s window and goes back to sleep.
The driver is again woken from his sleep by a knock on his window. The man knocking on the window says, “It’s 8:10 AM, you’re welcome!”
Jake is struggling through a bus station
with two huge and heavy suitcases when a stranger walks up to him and asks, “Have you got the time?”
Jake sighs, puts down the suitcases and glances at his wrist. “It’s quarter to six,” he says.
“Hey, that’s a pretty fancy watch!” exclaims the stranger. Jake brightens a little. “Yeah, it’s not bad.
Check this out!”
He shows him a time-zone display for every time zone in the world. He hits a few buttons and from somewhere on the watch a voice says, “The time is eleven past six.”
Jake continues, “I’ve put in regional accents for each city. The display is of unbelievably high quality and the voice is simply astounding.”
The stranger is struck dumb with admiration.
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“That’s not all,” says Jake. He pushes a few more buttons and a tiny but very hi-resolution map of New York City appears on the display. “The flashing dot shows our location by satellite positioning,” explains Jake.
“I want to buy this watch,” says the stranger. “Oh, no, it’s not ready for sale yet; I’m still working out the bugs,” says the inventor. “But look at this,” and he proceeds to demonstrate that the watch is also a very creditable little FM radio receiver with a digital tuner, a sonar device that can measure distances up to 125 metres, a pager with thermal paper printout and, most impressive of all, the capacity for voice recordings of up to 300 standard-size books,” says Jake.
“I’ve got to have this watch,” says the stranger. “No, you don’t understand; it’s not ready.”
“I’ll give you $1000 for it.”
“Oh, no, I’ve already spent more than that!”
“I’ll give you $5000 for it.”
“But it’s just not…”
“I’ll give you $15,000 for it.” And the stranger pulls out a checkbook. Jake stops to think.
He’s only put about $8500 into materials and development, and with $15 000 he can make another one and have it ready for merchandising in only six months. The stranger frantically finishes writing the check and waves it in front of him. “Here it is, ready to hand to you right here and now.
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$15,000. Take it or leave it!”
Jake abruptly makes his decision. “Okay,” he says, and peels off the watch.
They make the exchange and the stranger starts happily away. “Hey, wait a minute!” calls Jake after the stranger turns around warily. He points to the two suitcases he’d been trying to wrestle through the bus station.
“Don’t forget your batteries!”
A police car pulled up in front of Grandma Bessie’s house
A police car pulled up in front of Grandma Bessie’s house, and out stepped Grandpa Morris. The officer politely explained, “Ma’am, your husband said he got lost in the park and couldn’t find his way home.”
Grandma Bessie stared at Morris and said, “Lost? You’ve been going to that park for 30 years!
How’d you get lost today?”
Leaning in close so the officer couldn’t hear, Grandpa whispered, “I wasn’t lost. I was just too tired to walk home.”
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A policeman pulls over an old man driving a pickup truck
A policeman pulls over an old man driving a pickup truck with the bed overflowing with ducks. The officer says sternly, “Sir, you can’t have a flock of ducks wandering around downtown.
Take them to the zoo immediately!”
The old man nods, agrees, and drives off. The next day, the officer spots the same pickup truck, still full of ducks—but this time, all the ducks are wearing sunglasses. Frustrated, the officer pulls the man over again and exclaims, “I thought I told you to take these ducks to the zoo!”
The old man grins and replies, “I did!
But now the little rascals want to go to the beach!”
