I WAS recuperating from surgery when a charity representative
phoned asking me to participate in a door-to-door fund-raising
effort. "Sorry," I replied, "but I've been incapacitated."

Undaunted, the caller continued trying to convince me to change
my mind and volunteer.

I interrupted and said, "I'm incapacitated. Do you know what that
means?"

She hesitated. "It means your head was cut off?"

-Reader's Digest