Two brawny men came to my house to install some new floor covering
in the kitchen. Once they had moved the stove and refrigerator out
of the way, it was not long before the job was done.

As they were getting ready to leave, I asked them to put the heavy
appliances back in place.

The two men demanded $45 for this service, stating it was not in
their contract.

I really had no choice but to pay them. As soon as they left, however,
the doorbell rang. It was the two men. They asked me to move my car,
which was blocking their van.

I told them my fee: $45.

An Engineering Student, a Physics Student, and a
Mathematics student were each given $150 dollars
and were told to use that money to find out exactly
how tall a particular hotel was.

All three ran off, extremely keen on how to do this.
The physics student went out, purchased some
stopwatches, a number of ball bearings, a calculator,
and some friends. He had them all time the drop of
ball bearings from the roof, and he then figured out
the height from the time it took for the bearings to
accelerate from rest until they impacted with the
sidewalk.

When the store manager returned from lunch, he noticed his clerk's hand was bandaged, but before he could ask about the bandage, the clerk said he had some very good news for him.

"Guess what, sir?" the clerk said. "I finally sold that terrible, ugly suit we've had so long!"

"Do you mean that repulsive pink-and-blue double- breasted thing?" the manager asked.

"That's the one!"

That's great!" the manager cried, "I thought we'd never get rid of that monstrosity! That had to be the ugliest suit we've ever had! But tell me. Why is your hand bandaged?"