| A lawyer wonders if his fees are too high.
He decides to conduct an informal survey and begins by asking his plumber:
"Do you think lawyers are expensive?"
"Are you kidding me?" the plumber replied.
"In my divorce, first my wife takes me to the cleaners, then my lawyer
takes me to the cleaners"
"Sorry to hear that" remarked the lawyer. He
then decided to ask his electrician the same thing. "Expensive? Expensive?
My mother's estate, all he did was shuffle a few papers across his desk,
and he charged almost as much as the undertaker!"
"Oh, that's too bad" the lawyer muttered in
discouragement. However he thought he would give his survey one more sampling.
So one Saturday morning when he was taking some trash to the local landfill,
he asked the gatekeeper: "Are lawyers expensive?"
To which the gatekeeper answered: "No, I think
they're cheap, reasonable"
"Really?" the much elated councilor beamed:
"You're the first guy that's told me that."
"Just let me look at my chart here" said the
gatekeeper, referring to a long list inside his shack. "Let's see now:
Lawn clippings, Lawnmowers, Lawyers, here were are, $80.00 a ton" |
