A Misfit
Assistant: “Do the shoes fit, madam?”
Madam: “Oh, yes, they fit me perfectly; but they hurt me terribly when I try to walk.”
A Cheerful Invitation
An odd instance of the force of technical training is afforded by a story of one of the official attendants at a funeral. Having been charged with a message from a relative of the departed to another guest, he came across the room, and translating it into his own language, said, “If you please, sir, the corpse’s brother would be happy to take wine with you.”