CHOKING….
July 19th, 2005
A dad walks into a market followed by his ten-year-old son. The kid is
spinning a quarter in the air and catching it between his teeth. As they
walk through the market, someone bumps into the boy at just the wrong
moment. The coin goes straight into his mouth and lodges in his throat. He
immediately starts choking, going blue in the face and dad starts panicking,
shouting for help.
A well-dressed middle-aged, moderately attractive but serious woman in a
blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar in the market, reading her
newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she
looks up, puts her coffee cup down on the saucer, neatly folds her
newspaper and places it on the counter. She then gets up from her seat
and makes her unhurried way across the market.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully takes hold of the boy’s testicles and
squeezes gently at first and then ever more firmly. After a few seconds,
the boy convulses violently and coughs up the quarter, which the woman
deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy, the woman hands the
coin to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without
saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill- effects,
the father rushes over to the woman and starts effusively thanking her
saying, “I’ve never seen anybody do anything like that before - it was
fantastic! Are you a doctor?”
“Good heavens, no,” the woman replies. “I’m a divorce attorney.”