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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to " d+ Z8 y* S2 O' e
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the # g, y* A" K. M7 u
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a; K; h3 N; j- \
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
. J5 U; S( N7 Q4 i little left to be of any use?"
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* c# Y; C' o" o2 b0 Q% h5 V "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to . c- C& q. a+ d$ a" ^! C6 [
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 5 C5 c2 `: u2 r B: W+ v/ N
bandages."
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) o, Z7 h d2 i9 P3 Y "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
; M( d6 @6 D4 y! g question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
) H9 B/ Z& K; v8 E9 q "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 0 K1 |4 \- w$ r, d/ @5 O
over after setting a cast on a patient?" , D1 Q Q- ~, w/ c2 i. T
9 ?% S1 z/ X7 l7 E# O$ C "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to - A7 b( _) C7 a& U: e+ z& b) O
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
# ^9 n8 b& y1 @' x4 p the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
1 g! ?( I0 o7 m plaster." # D. A* B+ a; E) ~9 O
0 O& ?8 x0 u+ q i1 j "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
3 ^2 C2 B4 y& H: b the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
0 O! b4 c( `/ f: x1 P! Y leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" * p* |* Z- D/ ~, m
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
' N2 ^* X z/ H4 n the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
* y; p+ w, _' P/ V8 }4 i year they send us a complete dick." |
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