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            The milk shake machine at the fast-food restaurant I manage was broken, so I had an assistant post a sign to that effect on the drive-through speaker.  A short time later, a customer pulled up to the speaker.

            “May I take your order?” I asked.

            Crash, boom, bang! Came the response.  I asked the customer to pull around.

            “Were you pounding on the speaker?” I asked the driver.

“Yes, I was,” she admitted.

            “Why would you do that?”

            “Because the sign on the speaker said:

‘SHAKE

MACHINE

BROKEN.’” - Deb Sipe, “All in a Day’s Work”

Readers Digest, February 2004, page 73