Consider my auto repairman, again. He had a habit of teeling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say,” doc, a deaf-amd-dumb guy went into a hardware store to ask some nails, he put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?

Indulgently. I litted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto repairman laughed raucously and said, “why, you dumb jerk, he used his voice and asked for them” then he said, smugly, I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” Did you catch many?’ I asked. “ quite a few” he said, ” but I knew for sure I’d catch you .” “ why is that?” I asked. “because you are so goddamned educated, doc. I knew you couldn’t be very smart.’ And I have an uneasy he had something there. (finish)