A dad walks into a market followed by his ten-year-old son. The
kid is spinning a quarter in the air and catching it between his
teeth. As they walk through the market someone bumps into the boy
at just the wrong moment and the coin goes straight into his
mouth and lodges in his throat.
He immediately starts choking, going blue in the face, and Dad
starts panicking, shouting for help.
A well dressed middle-aged, moderately attractive but serious
woman in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar in the
market reading her newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the
sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down on
the saucer, neatly folds her newspaper and places it on the
counter. Then she gets up from her seat and makes her unhurried
way across the market.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully takes hold of the boy's
testicles and squeezes gently at first and then ever more firmly.
After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the
quarter, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy, the woman hands the coin to the father and
walks back to her seat in the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting
ill-effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts
effusively thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do
anything like that before-it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?"
"Good heavens, no," the woman replies. "I am a Divorce
Attorney."
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