{"id":1124,"date":"2025-08-14T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:26:13","slug":"paying-the-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Paying The Check."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A fine-looking gentleman sat down in the main dining room of an expensive\u00a0restaurant.<\/h2>\n<p>He ordered a big dinner and spent an hour enjoying himself.<\/p>\n<p>After he was given the check, he summoned the headwaiter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, my friend,\u201d he said, \u201cthat was a delicious meal! Perhaps you don\u2019t remember that I was a guest at this same table just about a year ago. And at that time I couldn\u2019t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/your-grandson-will-pay-w\/\">pay<\/a>\u00a0the check, so you, sir had me thrown out in full view of all the other diners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sorry, sir,\u201d said the head waiter, \u201cbut, you understand\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh it\u2019s quite all right,\u201d interrupted the gentleman, \u201cbut I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll have to trouble you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2389 size-full td-animation-stack-type2-2\" src=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/w2.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/w2.png 597w, https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/w2-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/w2-325x420.png 325w\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"772\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>There was a beautiful, young girl at a soda\u00a0machine\u00a0in Vegas,<\/h2>\n<p>and she arrived there just before a businessman coming to quench his thirst.<\/p>\n<p>She opened her purse and put in 50 cents, studied the machine for a short while, pushed a Diet Coke selection, and out came a Diet Coke. She placed it on a counter next to the machine.<\/p>\n<p>Then she reached into her purse again, pulled out a dollar and inserted it in the machine. Studying the machine carefully, she pushed the button for Coke Classic and out came a Coke Classic and 50 cents change.<\/p>\n<p>She immediately took the 50 cents and put them in the machine, studied it for a moment and pushed the Mountain Dew button. Out came a Mountain Dew. She placed them both on the counter next to the Diet Coke.<\/p>\n<p>As she was reaching into her purse again, the businessman, who\u2019d been waiting patiently for several minutes by then, spoke up. \u201cExcuse me, miss, but are you done yet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at him and indignantly asked,<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWell, can\u2019t you see I\u2019m still\u00a0winning?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>A fisherman carrying\u00a0a lobster\u00a0bumped into a friend on the way home.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you going with the lobster under your arm?\u201d asked his friend.<\/p>\n<p>The fisherman answered, \u201cI\u2019m taking him home to dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just then the lobster spoke up,\u00a0<strong>\u201cI\u2019ve already had my dinner, can we go to a movie instead?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine-looking gentleman sat down in the main dining room of an expensive\u00a0restaurant. He ordered a big dinner and spent an hour enjoying himself. After he was given the check, he summoned the headwaiter. \u201cAh, my friend,\u201d he said, \u201cthat was a delicious meal! Perhaps you don\u2019t remember that I was a guest at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}