A dad walks into a market followed by his ten-year-old son. The kid is
spinning a 25 cent piece in the air and catching it between his teeth.
As they walk through the market, someone bumps into the boy at just the
wrong moment and the coin goes straight into his mouth and lodges in
his
throat. He immediately starts choking, going blue in the face, and Dad
starts panicking, shouting for help.
A well dressed middle-aged, moderately attractive but serious woman in
a
blue business suit, is sitting at a coffee bar in the market reading
her
newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion,
she
looks up, puts her coffee cup down on the saucer, neatly folds her
newspaper
and places it on the counter. Then, she gets up from her seat and
makes her
unhurried way across the market. Reaching the boy, the woman carefully
takes hold of the boy's testicles and squeezes gently at first and then
ever
more firmly.
After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the 25
cent
piece, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the
boy,
the woman hands the coin to the father and walks back to her seat in
the
coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill-effects,
the
father rushes over to the woman and starts effusively thanking her
saying,
"I've never seen anybody do anything like that before--it was
fantastic. Are
you a doctor?"
"Good heavens, no," the woman replies. "I'm a divorce attorney." |
