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We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the special was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $ 1.99. "Sounds good," my wife said. "But I don't want the eggs." "Then I'll have to charge you two dollars and forty-nine cents because you're ordering a la carte," the waitress warned her. "You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?" my wife asked incredulously. "I'll take the special." "How do you want your eggs?" "Raw and in the shell," was my wife's reply.
She took the two eggs home.
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At a restaurant where I worked, a group of four sat at a table and ordered drinks while they read their menus. When I brought the refreshments, one slipped from my fingers, landed back on my tray but then toppled, spilling its contents onto one of the customers. After the initial shock of the cold drink soaking her, the customer immediately exclaimed, "Looks like this round's on me!