Mr John has paid much attention to his weight reduction programs. Just last year, for example, when he was the main speaker at the company dinner, he said he had put on 30 pounds instead of losing the forty he had promised he would.
The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate less food. After three months however be began making excuses about why he couldn’t go there more often.
As the health club failed to work, he joined Weight Watchers but stopped going because he was the only man there. And he hates following any of the diet programs. John’s latest action is to join a walking club to "walk off" the weight.
John and his wife had a small restaurant near a station. The restaurant often stayed open until the early hours of the morning, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.
At two o’clock, one morning, a man was still sitting at a table in the small restaurant. He was asleep. John’s wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the restaurant several times, and each time the man was still there Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, "You’ve woken that man six times now, but he isn’t drinking anything. Why haven’t you sent him away It’s very late."
"Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away," answered her husband with a smile, "you see, when I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him he pays for it. Then he goes back to sleep again."
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