STRATEGY
WILLIE WILLIS—"Pa, what's strategy?"
PAPA WILLIS—"Usually darn poor judgment that happens to work out all right."
A young lady took down the receiver and discovered that the telephone was in use. "I just put on a pan of beans for dinner," she heard one woman complacently informing another.
She hung up the receiver, and waited. Three times she waited, and then, exasperated, she broke into the conversation.
"Madam, I smell your beans burning," she announced crisply. A horrified scream greeted the remark, and the young lady was able to put in her call.
A lady entered a railroad-car and took a seat in front of a newly married couple. She was hardly seated before they began making remarks about her.
Her last year's bonnet and coat were fully criticised with more or less giggling on the bride's part, and there is no telling what might have come next if the lady had not put a sudden stop to the conversation by a bit of strategy.