This friend who always seemed to lean slightly to the left all the time.
It used to bother me, so I suggested he see a doctor, and have his legs checked out. For years, he refused... told me I was crazy.
But last week, he finally went, and sure enough, the doctor discovered his left leg was 1/4" shorter than his right.
A quick bit of orthopedic surgery later, he was cured, and both legs are exactly the same length now, and he no longer leans.
"So," I said, "You didn't believe me when I told you a doctor could fix your leg."
He just looked at me and said, ... "I stand corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A girl at work once who was truly concerned about her husband's smoking. She told me that she had finally gotten him to agree to limit his smoking at home to only those times when they had finished making love. She had gotten the idea from a classic movie they had both see on TV called "Cold Turkey". After about a week, I asked her how it was going. "Well, not too bad." She said, getting up off of a pillow she had in her chair and limping towards the photocopy machine. "I've gotten him down to about a pack a night now." |