The Chemist

[Ian McKay]

PHARMACIST'S MORNING

 

Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife.

" What's up my darling," asked the loving husband.

Tearfully she explained, " It's the Chemist. He insulted me terribly this morning

on the phone.I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone."

Immediately, the husband drove down to confront the Chemist and demand an apology.

Before he could more than a word or two, the Chemist told him," Now, just a minute

mate, listen to my side of it."

" This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast

and hurried out to my car, just to realize that I'd locked the house with both house and car

keys inside and had to break a window to get in for the keys."

" Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later,when I was about three streets

away from the store, I had a flat tyre."

" When I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting for me to open up. I got the

store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the damn phone never stopped

ringing." He continued, " Then I had to break open a bag of £1 coins to give change and they

spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick them up and the

phone was still ringing. When I got up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made

me stagger back against a showcase with bottles of expensive perfumes on it. Half of them hit

the floor and broke."

" Meanwhile the phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was

your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer. And believe me, mate, as God

is my witness, all I did was tell her."

BRIAN REEVES