RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34132, 20 April 1976, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

A bed-time stors

The refrigerator serviceman. toolbox in hand, knocked at the back door. He hoped the housewife would be at home He had been asked | to call the previous day, I but hadn't managed to fit 1 it in. An attractive womanl opened the door and; -miled at him. Beckoning him inside, she closed the door. "Just come this way. | 1 ve been waiting for| you." Following her down ai

-ide passage, it seemed to; him they were moving ’ ,;away from the kitchen.; However, he was used to! ■ people keeping their re-I frigerators in unusual 11 places. Even so, he hesitated at •the doorway as she went I into a bedroom There wasn’t a refrigerator in sight. Without a moment’s | hesitation, she marched;, over to the bed and! threw back the bed-! clothes. The happily- ■ married serviceman! 1 ■began to feel distinctly 11

uneasy. A red tinge ’ crept above his collar. | The woman was per- ’ jfectly at ease. She sat down on the bed and patted the mattress beside her. As she began to speak, she looked at him and noticed his heightened colour and shuffling feet. Suddenly, she mirrored ! his embarrassment. “You i‘are the man from the' 1 mattress company, aren’t? .you? — the one 1 rang; I about the mattress l| Ibought?”