A man from the Old Country went to a diner every day for lunch. He
always ordered the soup of the day. One day the manager asked him how
he liked his meal. The old man replied, “It was good, but you could
give a little more bread.”
So the next day the manager told the waitress to give him four slices
of bread. “How was your meal, sir?” the manager asked. “It was good,
but you could give a little more bread,” came the reply.
So the next day the manager told the waitress to give him eight slices
of bread. “How was your meal today, sir?” the manager asked. “It was
good, but you could give maybe a little more bread,” came the reply.
So…the next day the manager told the waitress to give him a whole
loaf of bread with his soup. “How was your meal, sir?” the manager
asked, when he came to hand him the bill. “It was good, but you could
give maybe a little more bread,” came the reply once again.
The manager was obsessed with seeing this customer say that he is
satisfied with his meal, so he went to the bakery, and ordered a
six-foot-long loaf of bread. When the man came in as usual the next
day, the waitress and the manager cut the loaf in half, buttered the
entire length of each half, and laid it out along the counter, right
next to his bowl of soup. The old man sat down, and devoured his bowl
of soup, and both halves of the six-foot-long loaf of bread.
The manager now thinks he will get the answer he is looking for, and
when the old man came up to pay for his meal, the manager asked in the
usual way, “How was your meal TODAY, sir?”
The old man replied, “It was good, as usual, but why you are back to
giving only two slices bread!”
