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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 2 F l* Q# }1 \+ Z
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ; ]$ v) a5 U9 t5 J; w2 W5 \
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
9 L- s6 P( q+ X/ z2 {. J$ y) _ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
! g5 o' J- f, i/ V little left to be of any use?"
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' Z4 T% _, K8 y( _& m: J "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 9 t. m8 v2 i8 S) M" Z& |9 J5 }' a: ^
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ) N! B' I7 M6 c: [& m, v# ?
bandages."
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& i J9 z% G5 A/ J8 V "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
! G! ~# ~( b5 V9 b' J question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 0 \: C3 O* }1 T8 j: h
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left . F7 r# Q& f. q1 J& S
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 5 n5 [3 S3 ~* [. }
C. ? ?8 ]/ Z1 ~1 ] "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ; o1 k! l' Q/ H6 @ Q$ c
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to $ M- Z/ ? d( v; z: @ i6 Q
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 4 c0 O/ M6 p, x
plaster." 5 `: \: d4 Y2 v
1 l, [9 t( o { "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 7 B; K- {4 @) z/ m
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the $ h* V3 P. Z/ I5 R" n
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" ' a5 \/ |; J: l& h+ }
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
5 S9 f2 }+ P( r the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a " h, Z K1 v* D: g) E. |
year they send us a complete dick." |
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