What's All This Brouhaha? » Jokes https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com miscellaneous musings and random rantings Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Retired businessmen https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/03/23/retired-businessmen/ https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/03/23/retired-businessmen/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:20:28 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=649 Continue reading →]]> Joe and Fred were relaxing on the beach in Florida, and struck up a conversation. Joe asked Fred what he did for a living, and Fred relied, “I owned a grocery store. Business was good, but last year there was a fire and the building burned down. I got an insurance settlement, and considered rebuilding, but I’m no spring chicken, so I decided that it was a good time to retire.”

Joe said, “That’s similar to my situation. I had a hardware store, but was wiped out by a flood, and decided to use the insurance money to retire.”

Fred thought about that for a minute, then asked, “How do you set a flood?”

Admittedly this isn’t a good time for telling flood jokes, and I’m not trying to make light of the misery of others. A completely unrelated conversation brought this joke to mind. I just made a donation to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, and would encourage others to do likewise. Some companies offer matching for donations to the Red Cross; I’ll check with my employer tomorrow.

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