After being with her all evening, the man couldn't stand another minute with his blind date. Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend call him on the phone an hour into the evening so he would have an excuse to leave if something like this happened. When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grim statement and said, "I have some bad news. My grand- father has just died." "Thank God," his date said. "If yours hadn't, mine would've had to." |