Sick Employee Explaining To His Friend His Common Cold

THE COMMON COLD Have you ever felt like you were going to die? And you knew good and well the reason why; and as you got sicker and sicker; and the heavy gloom grew thicker and thicker, it began to seem like the very end, so I decided to call my very best friend. And when I called him I told him "I think that I will never see anything again as lovely as a tree;" and he sighed because he himself was feeling a little sad; and he said "Cheer up, friend, it can't be that bad!" And I told him for sure, for sure it was. But I got no sympathy as an injured person does; and I started to feel bent out of shape and even mad. E-gad! And I began to think that that friend of mine was a bit of a cad. And then suddenly my temperature broke; and I cracked another one of my world famous jokes; and my friend laughed and snickered and told me he thought it was one of my finest; and I said no it wasn't and thanked him for his kindness; and then when I hung up my phone, I smiled, sat down and knew that I would live forever, because a dying person never has enough energy to be that clever. Janet Marie Bingham