Frames

  One thing I have found out about myself is that I have a dry sense of humor.  I have also found that some people are gullible.  They don't understand when I am joking about something.  

 Case in point was a girl who worked for me at Belk, when I was a buyer.  I honestly don't know why she was hired for a job.  We had an HR person who hired a lot of pretty girls, so maybe he hired her.  At any rate, they put her to work nights and weekends in the Stationery Dept.  She was a senior in high school, and she told me that the only way she passed her courses was doing personal favors for her teachers, especially the male teachers.  I didn't doubt her claim for an instant.  

 One day, we got a bunch of picture frames for sale.  Most frames come with a stock photo of either people or places to make the frames attractive to the customers.  As we were unpacking a box one evening, she saw the pictures and remarked about the photos.  I told her that the people were my relatives, and the places in the photos were where they lived.  I then proceeded to make up stories about the people.  Because many of the pictures looked like they were taken in New England, the supposed relatives lived in Maine.  There were nice pictures of lighthouses and the coast.  I thought she would laugh about my stories, but she took it all in with amazement.  How could she be so gullible?  As it turned out, she was just not very smart.  I have to say that she was nice to look at, but I had to fire her for not being very bright.

 A couple of years later, I found out that she had gone on to Midlands Technical College to study to be a dental hygienist.  I pity whatever dentist hired her.  And especially, the patients she worked on.  I also wonder if she ever found herself in Maine to look up my relatives who were in the pictures.