A Carol I. Kallendorf, Ph.D./Jack Speer Publication

You Just Gotta Laugh!

As a butcher is shooing a dog from his shop, he sees $10 and a note in his mouth, reading: "10 lamb chops, please." Amazed, he takes the money, puts a bag of chops in the dog's mouth.

The butcher says to himself, "I've got to watch where this dog goes."  So he closes his shop and follows him.  The dog trots down the street, carefully holding the bag of chops, looks both ways at the stop light and carefully crosses on green.  Then he runs to the bus stop, takes the bus schedule from his collar, and checks the watch tied around his neck for the correct time. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the
front and looks at the number, then boards the bus.

The butcher follows, dumbstruck.

As the bus gets out into the suburbs, the dog gets up just at the right time and stands on his back paws to push the "stop" button. 

 The butcher follows him off.

The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag of pork chops onto the porch. He goes back down the  walk about 10 feet, gets a running start, and throws himself--whap!--against the door. He does this again and again, but nobody answers. Now really upset the dog jumps on a wall, walks around the garden, beats his head against a window, jumps off, and waits at the front door.

Just then a big guy opens it and starts cursing and beating on the dog. The butcher runs up screams at the guy, "What are you doing? This dog's a genius!"

The owner responds, "Genius, my hind foot! It's the second time this
week he's forgotten his key!"

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