Jakey Juice

[hibby1875]

On a warm and balmy day, a man walks into a hardware store, walks up to the counter and asks for two bottles of paint thinner.

The shop owner, seeing the man's dishevelled appearance, replied: 'I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't serve you'.

'Why not?' said the man.

'Well, I've had your kind in here before looking for paint thinner - your'e a wino and you're just going to drink the stuff. Please leave.'

Quickly the man replied in a clear manner: 'Look sir, I understand why you would think that, but I can assure you that your mistaken. The reason I look like this is that my wife, kids and I were wrongly evicted from our home and the landlord kept all our possesions. We managed to find a new flat at short notice, but it is in a terrible state - filthy, with no running water and in desperate need of redecoration. We're all living in a single room at the moment, and until the work is done and the plumbing is sorted, I have only the clothes on my back to wear, while I know that I stink a bit.'

The shopkeeper, on hearing this, grabbed the bottles of thinner from the shelf behind him and said: 'Look friend, I can't apologise enough for misreading your intentions. To make it up to you, you can have the thinner on the house.'

'Thanks! That's very kind of you..' said the man '...but could I get some from the fridge?'.