True story
The following is supposedly a true story, and besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny.
Many folks have written with perfectly plausible explanations about why merchants take my phone number on a credit card charge. What they fail to address, however, is that if I’m perpetrating a fraud in the use of this credit card, I’m not about to give out a correct phone number.
They make no effort to validate the phone number before I leave, so what they’re doing is collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of honest people.
Now then... Why are they collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of honest people?
I once asked why you are asked for your phone number when using your charge cards.
The clerk explained that theives have been caught because they stupidly put down their home phone number, and not the phone number of the person who “owned” the card.
Rookie’s first assignment
A rookie police officer was out for his first ride in a cruiser with an experienced partner. A call came in telling them to disperse some people who were loitering.
The officers drove to the street and observed a small crowd standing on a corner.
The rookie rolled down his window and said, “Let’s get off the corner, people!”
A few glances, but no one moved, so he shouted again, “Let’s get off that corner... Now!” Intimidated, the group of people began to leave, casting puzzled stares in his direction.
Proud of his first official act, the young policeman turned to his partner and asked, “Well, how did I do?”
“Pretty good,” chuckled the verteran policemen, “especially since this is a bus stop!”
A motivational speaker, while addressing his audience, talked about the various achievements man has made today.
He said, “Today, man has built a ship to cross an ocean, fastest trains to travel across cities, and built planes to fly high in the skies like a bird.”
A gentleman from the audience interrupted, “A man still cannot sit on a barbed wire like a bird does!”
Compiled by Usama Rasheed