The patient went to his doctor for a checkup, and the doctor wrote out a
prescription for him in his usual illegible writing. The patient put it in
his pocket, but he forgot to have it filled. Every morning for two years he
showed it to the conductor as a railroad pass. Twice it got him into the
movies, once into the baseball park and once into the symphony. He got a
raise at work by showing it as a note from the boss. One day he mislaid it.
His daughter picked it up, played it on the piano and won a scholarship to a
conservatory of music.
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that
Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't
seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a
doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited,
and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor,
and the doctor put some salve on it?...