GET ME OFF IN BUFFALO
A big executive boarded a New York to Chicago train. He explained to the porter: “I’m a heavy sleeper and I want you to be sure to wake me at 3:00 a.m. to get off at Buffalo. Regardless of what I say, get me up, and get me off the train. I may resist you, but I’ve got to get off at Buffalo.” But the next morning the executive awakened just as the train pulled into Chicago. He was infuriated, and he really poured it on the porter with abusive language. As he stomped down the platform toward the station another passenger asked the porter, “How could you stand there and take that kind of talk from that fellow?” The porter replied, “That was nothing. You should have heard what the man said that I put off in Buffalo!”
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