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TradeShowDave
California, United States

A man was walking on the beach and saw a fancy bottle, rubbed the sand off..and Poof! A Genie appeared and said you get three wishes as a reward for letting me out of my bottle.
The man said well this is California and I am going through a nasty divorce so how will that affect my wishes?
The Genie said it just means that whatever you get your wife will get double. What is your first wish? The man said “I wish I had a million dollars cash”. And Poof! A pile of Hundred dollar bills appeared next to the Genie and then.....
Poof! Poof! 2 more piles of money behind the first one.
Wow!, the man said. This is for real!
Yes, the Genie said what will be your next wish?
Well, I always wished I could have a huge house on this beach.
It will be so, said the Genie. Then Poof!....... Poof! Poof!
Three huge mansions appeared up on the nearby cliffs.
The man was getting really excited now, jumping up and down and laughing.
The Genie said you have one more wish my friend, what would you like for your last wish? The man got quiet and lowered his voice and said, I want you to beat me half to death.

Posted 16 Jul 2009 04:14 AM

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edward_t
North Carolina, United States

good one

when I saw the "Subject" line, it reminded me of an incident I had about 15 years ago.
A little background is that I grew up and lived most of my adult life in Miami Fla. (I am no longer there), and there we have a euphemism for prople no longer employeed, rather than say "they are out of work", we would say "they are hanging around at the beach".
When ever a customer asked if we were staying busy, I regularly answered "I don't know if I would know if we were busy or not, all the years I been doing this no one ever said; 'there is nothing to do, go hang out at the beach'.
One day shortly after I had gotten a new service manager (who had been the transport truck driver the day before), I had a service call for a diesel powered Genie lift, at a construction site at the beach, right next to the nude beach section. The problem with the lift was that after a couple of hours operation, the engine speed would cut way back and start to smoke. This sounded for all the world to me like a dirty fuel filter, so I changed the fuel filter,drained the water from the fuel tank and told the customer the odds were good that this would cure his problem, but if not to call us back and we would be glad to troubleshoot his problems further.
I did not think I should have waited around for hours to see the problem did -not- return, so I called my new boss and told him I was done. He told me in no uncertain terms I could NOT be done, since the problem took over 2 hours operation to experience, and that if I wanted to keep my job, I would stay there and drive the unit for 2 hours, and only then call back. My reply was "do you know where I am?" his reply was that he did not care where I was, that I better not give him any more backtalk and I better operate that unit for 2.5 more hours and then call back, and he hung up.
I drove that Genie lift up and down the nude beach for 3 hours. I am pretty sure everyone at that beach decided I was the biggest perv in the state by the time I was done.
I quit telling people that no one had ever told me to go hang out at the beach, from that day on.
By the way, the problem with the lift WAS the fuel filter.

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Modified 16 Jul 2009 06:17 AM
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roadrat
North Carolina, United States

Hey Ed,

"It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it"
I admire a fellow that goes the extra mile to satisfy a customer.

lmao!!!!

Modified 16 Jul 2009 11:06 AM
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