twincityhacker

My brain. I don't really have anything to say, except I just had to stop reading the cog
sci paper for a bit. It's good, it's interesting, it's just really fucking long.

One of the authors well remembers a personal experience at a modest restaurant with three friends some years ago. One of our group was not too hungry, and he asked the waiter just for a plate to share some of our spaghetti. The waiter said this would cost $.25 ( a princely sum in those days). and we considered this an unreasonable pretension for such a humble place. Indignant, we decided to cancel our orders and leave. However, the waiter maintained that since the cook was already making the food, we were responsible for paying the bill. Now we were really mad, and we refused to pay. Thereupon he telephoned the police and we were led a lock away to the station house and held on a $200 bail.. We ere charged with failure to pay our obligation of $5.50, and were threatened with a night in jail. This sobered us, but we still did not want to surrender meekly to the rest manager who was standing by awaiting action. Did we return to the restaurant?... Well, yes and no. We solved our problem by asking if we could have the food as a take-out order. That was agreed, and we went happily home with no extra plate and no extra charge.

A travling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was unexpectedly canceled. The two of them were sound asleep, when in the middle of the night there was a loud knock at the front door. The wife woke up with a start and cried out, 'Oh, my God! It's my husband!' Whereupon the husband lept from the bed, ran across the room and rumped out the window.

And it's making my brain hurt, but I think that's because the photocopy is a bit fuzzy.