The Black contractor looked the job over carefully and estimated the job at $600. When asked how he came up with that figure, he said, “$200 materials, $200 labor, and$200 profit.”
St. Peter then asked the Jewish contractor for an estimate. After careful inspection the Jew answered, “$3000—$1000 materials, $1000 labor, and$1000 profit.”
When St. Peter ask the Italian for an estimate, he answered immediately without looking over the job at all—$2600. Asked how he came up with that figure he answered, “Simple, $1000 for you. $1000 for me, and $600 to get the low bidder over there to do the work.”
Henry was from the United States and he hade to London for a holiday.
One day he was not feeling well, so he went to the clerk at the desk of his hotel and said, “I want to see doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one?”
The clerk looked in a book and then said, “Dr. Keh Grey, 61010. ”
Henry said, “Thank yon very much. Is he expensive?’”
“Well,” the clerk answered,“he always charges his patients two pounds for their first visit to him, and one pound and 50 pennies for later visits.”
Henry decided to save 50 pennies, so when he went to see the doctor, he said, “I’ve