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7 * ARITHMETIC

Appearances

29. A man was driving to town one morning with his wife.

The weather was hot and the windows were rolled up. "Honey," he said, "please open the windows."

"Are you crazy!" she exclaimed. "And let our neighbors driving in the next lane know our car isn't air-conditioned?"

30. Two girls at the beach were admiring the passing scene, which included an athletic chap, who was strutting his best.

"That's my kind," said one.

"Well, I don't know," the other replied. "I had a friend who married a man who owned a two-car garage, but he just keeps a bicycle in it."

Approval

31. It was a blistering-hot afternoon as the old senator stood on the rear platform of a campaign train orating at length to the uneasy crowd of voters gathered at the railroad station. Before he had completed his speech, the train started to pull out. Immediately the crowd broke into applause, accompanied by cheering and shouting.

With the shouts fading in the distance, the senator poured himself a shot of bourbon and remarked to a reporter: "You know something? I'm not sure whether they were applauding me or the engineer."

Arithmetic

32. Several young clerical workers were riding down in the elevator for their coffee break. Forgetting completely the warnings of her high school math teacher, one chic little number