STRANGE CURE FOR A COUGH

Craig, the clerk in the small drug store, wasn't much of a salesman. He could never 
find the item the customer wanted. Joe, the owner, had had enough of his clerk's 
incompetence and warned Craig that the next sale he missed would be his last. Just 
then a man came in, coughing, and asked Craig to find a remedy. Try as he might, Craig 
simply couldn't find the cough syrup.  Remembering Joe's warning, he sold the man a box 
of laxitive and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as Craig said and 
left. Joe witnessed the whole transaction and confronted Craig.

"A laxative won't cure a cough, you fool!" Joe shouted. "Sure it will," Craig said, 
pointing through the window at the man, who was now leaning against a lamp post. "Look 
at him. He's afraid to cough."