One Man’s Joke Is Another Man’s Discount (standard:humor, 905 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jun 16 2019	Views/Reads: 1720/1111	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I have a responsibility to help stir up and give people a merry heart.

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Eventually the waitress came back with our ticket and said, “When my
manager heard your story he broke down laughing. Nobody has ever tried 
this in this restaurant before.” 

I smiled; I like to hear things like that. Then she said something that
really surprised me. 

“The manager said that I could give you a 10% discount for your pain and
suffering in our restaurant.” 

She handed me the ticket and there it was in black-and-white. “10%
discount for pain and suffering.” 

Several of the customers around me clapped and laughed at my success.
Nothing is more important to me than making people laugh. Too much 
gloom and doom in our world today. Somebody needs to step up and turn 
on the laughter machine. 

I took a picture of that ticket to make sure I would not forget that
sometimes one person's joke can equal a good discount. 

As we began driving after lunch, both of us chuckled for quite a while. 

I said to my wife, “Who in the world would have thought that would
work?” 

You never know what's going to work until you try it. If it does not
work, okay, move on to the next joke. People take things so seriously 
these days. Then there are those people who laugh at the wrong things. 
I need a balance in my life and I know that laughter is like medicine 
to the soul. It just depends what I am laughing at or who. 

One of my favorite Bible passages is found in the book of Proverbs.
Solomon wrote the Proverbs and is known as the wisest man that ever 
lived. He wrote, “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by 
sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken” (Proverbs 15:13). 

I have a responsibility to help stir up and give people a merry heart.


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