Henry: Of course I am. Take Jill up the mountains, or something.
Tony: That’s ever so good of you, Henry. Oh, you ... er ... you won’t tell anyone, will you ... I mean, I am on duty.
Henry: Not a word. Bye, Tony—enjoy yourself.
Tony: Thanks, Henry. I won’t forget this...
Henry: Damned right you won’t, you poor fool!
Dreams:
Three people are describing their dreams.
I knew that the brakes of my car needed repairing, but I did nothing about it, until one night I dreamt I was driving my car along a familiar road. Suddenly I had to brake because I was driving towards a wall. However, when I put my foot on the brake nothing happened and I crashed into the wall.
I was walking down an unfamiliar road when I reached a dark and miserable house. Grey clouds covered the sky, and so I went inside the house where I found a poor, pathetic person, wearing clothes similar to those my wife wore. I didn’t recognize her and felt sorry for her. There was nothing else in the dream but when I woke the next morning, I felt the misery and unhappiness of it all day.
One day I was sitting in my office, listening to a group of colleagues whispering and talking about me. I couldn’t hear what they were saying but it worried me. That night I dreamt exactly the same sequence again, except that in my dream I saw something I’d missed during the day. While they were whispering they were all looking down at something. The next morning when I woke up I realized exactly why they’d been whispering and talking about me. That day was my birthday. Wasn’t it possible that they’d been looking down at a birthday card? My dream was right. I did get a card from my colleagues, whom I’d suspected of talking about me.
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