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“People have been traveling by car for 100 years. My invention is long overdue. Who hasn’t had an emergency while traveling? Sometimes you’re miles from the nearest gas station or McDonald’s.
Everyone knows that when you gotta go, you gotta go,” said Phil Bole.
Phil has invented a chemical toilet for vehicles. One size fits all
vehicles and people. It is made from recycled materials. It never smells bad,
he claims. Between us, it can be stored
in the trunk. When the toilet is full, an adult or child can compress it into the size of a bowling ball. The waste matter in the toilet is
continuously being absorbed by chemicals and
bacteria. Eventually, all the waste matter turns into a pile of dry crumbs.The toilet can be dropped into any trash can at any time.
Phil tested his invention while on a two-week vacation with his wife and
four young kids. He said that the kids loved it. His wife didn’t.
“Nothing on Earth could make me u that disgusting thing!” she told him. He pleaded with her, saying that he had invented the toilet primarily for
women and kids. He needed a woman’s
blessing so the toilet would ll. “No woman would ever u this thing!” she responded.
疲劳症“My wife’s sort of a prude,” Phil said one day to Bret, his mechanic. After much thought, Phil finally figured out how to make his wife love his invention: he made a pink toilet covered with
yellow flowers. “What more could a woman want?” he asked while showing
it to Bret. Bret said it was a beautiful and a practical gift. And since his
wife's birthday was the following week, Bret
ordered a toilet. "Your wife will remember this birthday forever!" Phil promid Bret.
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Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the cond thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle when he was 25 years old. But this was
much bigger: it was $120,000! He had won the Big Cube, a state lottery game. To win, a contestant must first guess which number a spinning cube will stop on. The cube has six numbers on it: 1X,
办学宗旨10X, 50X, 100X, 500X, and 1000X. If he is correct, the contestant must
then guess which of two lected variables is going to be greater. So, just guessing which number appears on the cube does
not guarantee that you will win any money.
Sam correctly guesd 1000X, but he still had to choo between two variables. One variable was the number of cars that would run the stop sign at Hill Street and Lake Avenue in six hours.
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The other variable was the number of times that a teenage boy would change TV channels in a three-hour period. This was a tough decision.
Finally, Sam flipped a coin. It came up heads, so Sam picked the teenager. He picked right. The stop sign was run only 76 times, but the teen clicked 120 times. Sixty-year-old Sam jumped for
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joy, for he had just won 1000 times 120, or $120,000. Sam dreamily left the lottery studio. Talking excitedly on his cell phone while crossing the street, he got hit by a little sports car.
Sam is slowly getting better. He was in the hospital for a month. His hospital bill was $110,000. And the insurance company for the little sports car’s owner sued Sam for $9,000 worth of
repairs. Also, Sam still has to pay federal taxes on his winnings. Sam doesn’t play the state lottery any more. He says it’s better to be unlucky.
Theodore, the manager of the Paradi Hotel, told a middle-aged couple
that they would have to leave the hotel after just one night. The couple, visiting from Texas, had booked a room for
eight nights.
“They wanted a sterile environment,” Theodore said. “They should have rented a room in a hospital, maybe an operating room. This hotel is clean, but it isn’t that clean.”
Theodore said that, on the very first day, the couple brought all the sheets, pillowcas, and bedspreads down to the main lobby and just dropped them next to the front desk. They stood there
next to this pile of bedding while other guests looked, pointed, and murmured. The hotel got three cancellations within the hour from people who witnesd this strange event.
When Theodore asked the couple what the problem was, they said that their bedding was filthy and they wanted it replaced. The couple could not identify any specific “filth” on the bedding.
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The wife just said, “We’re paying good money to stay here. How dare you doubt us? We know the filth is there. That’s all the proof you need.” Theodore called room rvice, and the bedding was
replaced immediately.
Early the next evening, however, the couple marched to the front desk again and demanded ven cans of spray disinfectant. “We need a can for each night. We have to spray the phone, the TV,
书法的演变过程all the door handles, the toilet handle, the shower stall, the faucet, the sink, and any hotel staff entering our room.”
Worried about what their demands might be in the following days, Theodore politely suggested that a hotel more suitable for them was just around the corner. He then called ahead to rerve a
“very clean” room, and gave them free transportation in the hotel limousine.
“They emed surprid that I suggested a different hotel, but they liked the idea that I didn’t charge them for the cond day, and they really liked the limousine rvice,” said Theodore.
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