job. He’d call home, and then
the wife would call back, wanting to know when he would be
home. Each time she called, the
actor would break out in a sweat.
Finally, he asked the locksmith
if he had a hammer, where he
could just break out the window
-- anything to get going.
“You’re not helping the situa-
tion any,” the locksmith told him.
“Why don’t you just step back
into the motel room out of this
hot afternoon sun?”
girls there in the office that go
with the room. Be my guest.”
The locksmith thanked him
politely but said he had to get
on home.
When the locksmith arrived home, his phone was
ringing. A woman was calling
to ask if he had just opened a
car answering to the description of the actor’s vehicle and
demanded to know where the
opening had taken place.
The locksmith told her, “Gee,
lady, Wally’s the one who’s been
taking the service calls this
afternoon, and he started his
vacation at 6:00 PM today. It’ll
probably be a couple of weeks
before I hear back from him,
‘cause he’s an independent con-
tractor, and he doesn’t report to
me on all of his jobs. Sorry.”
Sometimes the best course
of action is to keep your mouth
shut and your nose out of other
people’s business.
He did, but left the door ajar, so
he could see what was going on.
When the locksmith finally got
the door open, the actor ran out,
handed the locksmith the quoted
amount for the car opening plus
a twenty dollar tip. As he jumped
into his car and cranked the
engine, he shouted to the locksmith, “Say, I paid up front for
that room, and there’s still some
time left on it. If you’re interested
in using it, there are a couple of
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