[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] The Avon Lady

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I understand this funny because it would be true in our community when I was growing up.
My explanation:  She had no documentation to vouch for who she said she was, but when the manager asked her a question that she should know the answer to IF those were real checks AND she actually lived in that neighborhood, she answered easily and proved she was who she said she was!  My mom WAS the Avon lady in our little town.  Funny.
I heard a story about a town smaller than ours when I was a pre-teen and it has stuck with me ever since.  Maybe it was in a Reader's Digest??  The town was so small and isolated that people's handwritten personal checks (unprocessed) were used as currency and when someone tried to pay with a particular one, the savvy cashier said 'You know we can't accept that check, it's <insert name town folk)'s check and you know that isn't worth the paper it's written on!'  Everyone in town knew that check would bounce, but someone in the past had accepted it and it was like the Old Maid's card in the card game of the same name.  No one wanted to be holding it when the game was over.
I loved that story and still do.
Jeanene
- When I grow up, I am going to marry a cowboy/cattle rancher in Wyoming or Montana and see live moose from my front porch.

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  Can anyone explain this joke to me?
  greenBubble 

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  The Avon Lady

  My friend Bev and her husband were reshingling their roof.
  As soon as they started, they realized they needed more
  supplies, so Bev grabbed the checkbook, jumped into her car,
  and drove the 45 miles to the nearest lumberyard.

  After gathering the items she needed, Bev went up to the
  cashier and wrote a check. "I really need to see a photo
  ID," the clerk said.

  "I don't have one on me," Bev replied.

  The cashier called over the manager, who examined the check.
  Then the manager looked up and asked Bev, "Who is the Avon
  lady in your town?"

  Puzzled, Bev responded, "Maxine Thompson."

  "Take her check," the smiling manager said to the cashier.
  "Maxine is my grandmother."

  Received from Ed.
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