joke, non fishing related

[boater]

Got a Little Cough?


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>Subject: got a little cough?????????
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> > John was a clerk in a small drugstore but he was not much of a salesman.
>He
> > could never find the item the customer wanted. Bob, the owner, had had
>about
> > enough and warned John that the next sale he missed would be his last.
>Just
> > then a man came in coughing and he asked John for their best cough syrup.
>Try
> > as he might, John could not find the cough syrup. Remembering Bob's
>warning,
> > he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once. The
> > customer did as John said and then walked outside and leaned against a
>lamp
> > post. Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had
> > transpired. "He wanted something for his cough but I couldn't find the
>cough
> > syrup. I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once," John
> > explained. "Ex-Lax won't cure a cough!" Bob shouted angrily. "Sure it
>will,"
> > John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamppost. "Look at him. He's
> > afraid to cough."