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Just got this in email, Don’t know if this is true or not but it is funny.
THIS IS FUNNY… JUST PICTURE IT IN YOUR HEAD!!!
Black Robbers
For anyone who didn’t see David Letterman’s take on this: (And it’s a true story…) On a recent weekend in Atlantic City , a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But First she wanted to stash the quarters in her room. ‘I’ll be right back and we’ll go to eat,’ she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two men already aboard. Both were black. One of them was tall…very tall…an intimidating figure. The woman froze Her first thought was: ‘These two are going to rob me.’ Her next thought was: ‘Don’t be a bigot; they look like perfectly nice gentlemen.’ But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized her. She stood and stared at the two men. She felt anxious, flustered and ashamed. She hoped they didn’t read her mind but gosh, they had to know what she was thinking!!!
Her hesitation about joining them in the elevator was all too obvious now. Her face was flushed.. She couldn’t just stand there, so with a mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and followed with the other foot and was on the elevator. Avoiding eye contact, she turned around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed. A second passed, and then another second, and then another. Her fear increased! The elevator didn’t move. Panic consumed her. ‘My Goodness,’ she thought, I’m trapped and about to be robbed! ‘Her
heart plummeted. Perspiration poured from every pore.
Then one of the men said, ‘Hit the floor.’ Instinct told her to do what they told her. The bucket of quarters flew upwards as she threw out her arms and collapsed on the elevator floor. A shower of coins rained down on her. Take my money and spare me, she prayed. More seconds passed. She heard one of the men say politely, ‘Ma’am, if you’ll just tell us what floor you’re going to, we’ll push the button.’ The one who said it
had a little trouble getting the words out. He was trying mightily to hold in a belly la ugh. The woman lifted her head and looked up at the two men. They reached down to help her up. Confused, she struggled to her feet. ‘When I told my friend here to hit the floor,’ said the average sized one, ‘I meant that he should hit the elevator button for our floor. I didn’t mean for you to hit the floor, ma’am.’ He spoke genially. He bit his lip. It was obvious he was having a hard time not laughing. The woman thought: ‘My Goodness, what a spectacle
I’ve made of myself.’ She was too humiliated to speak. She wanted to blurt out an apology, but words failed her. How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving as though they were going to rob you? She didn’t know what to say.
The three of them gathered up the strewn quarters and refilled her bucket. When the elevator arrived at her floor they then insisted on walking her to her room. She seemed
a little unsteady on her feet, and they were afraid she might not make it down the corridor. At her door & they bid her a good evening. As she slipped into her room she could hear them roaring with laughter as they walked back to the elevator. The woman brushed herself off. She pulled herself together and went downstairs for dinner with her husband.The next morning flowers were delivered to her room – a dozen roses. Attached to EACH rose was a crisp one hundred dollar bill.
The card said: ‘Thanks for the best laugh we’ve had in years.’
It was signed;
Eddie Murphy
Michael Jordan
Lenny,
i sent an email to LauraW to see if she and her husband needed any snow help. I mentioned that I sent a link from their cooking site to you and here’s the reply:“Hah, of course no problem. I should start a new cooking project and post there again.
If you ever get a pork belly, do the black pepper and onion bacon recipe right away. It is THE BEST. We carved away at a slab of that this weekend. It seems to improve when it sits in the fridge for a week. The moisture/ texture evens out and you don’t get the spotty scorching that really fresh bacon is known for.”
Andy.. don’t know if iti is true, but I got this Email a few years back, but with two other black entertainers…….so.. who knows….I can tell you I got on an elevator in Vegas about 2am one night. My wife was with me. Two other gents were on already in the elevator when we got on. I talked to them all the way up to our floor where we got off. As the doors closed behind us, I said to my wife, wow that was neat huh. She said what was neat? I said who was on the elevator…that I spoke to for several minutes. She said who? I said really.. what show did we pay big $ to see tonight. She looked at me with that screen saver stare.. We have been on the elevator with Tommy Smothers and Jim Safford…..(this was years ago). She never even saw them, nor heard me talking to them…..so… who knows if this is real or not.. weird stuff happens when your gambling !
an old customer of mine turned Bob Hope down for a game of golf while he was in AK doing a show. I scolded him!
Hell I turned Todd Snider down for a day of fishing this fall…I quickly reversed that answer of no and said sure. The big stoner never showed the next morn……WTH!
Always liked Jim Stafford! “I dont like spiders and snakes”I was fortunate to see Bob Hope’s show in DaNang in Dec 1966…with Joey Heatherton… gulp
Just happened to be in the the rear that day….. GREAT American… even to he was English. Never be another..today we have no Hope…
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