Why you don't need an email address?

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches TV all day & his 3 teenage kids have dropped out of high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm & easily passes an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop.
Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms & advise you when to start & where to report on your first day."
Taken back, the man protests that he is poor & has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies:"You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do no exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn & only having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market & sees a stand selling 25 lb (11 KG) crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner & displays the tomatoes.
In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes & makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 & arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.
During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day & working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.
Early in the 2nd week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.At the end of a year he owns 3 old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes & his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep the books for him.By the end of the 2nd year he has 12 very nice used trucks & employs 15 previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
He continues to work hard.Time passes & at the end of the 5th year he owns a fleet of trucks & a warehouse which his wife supervises, plus 2 tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless & jobless people to work.
His daughter reports that the business grossed a million dollars! Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances.
Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer & has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned:
"What, you don't have e -mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that 5 years ago!"
"Ha!" snorts the man... "If I'd had e-mail 5 years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft & making just $5.15 an hour."

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Weather predictions-BAHLE WAY

Predictions ... predictions.Have you ever wondered how people make predictions? Read on...
It was October and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a Chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old secrets of weather predictions.
When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood.But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"
"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded. So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes", the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."
The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later the Chief called the National Weather Service again.
"Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely," the man replied.
"It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."
"How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.
The weatherman replied: "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."

What not to say to a cop when he pulls you over

1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.
2. Sorry officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in.
3 Hey, you must have been doing 125 to keep up with me, good job
4. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical shape to be a police officer.
5. I was going to be a cop, but I decided to finish high school instead.
6. Bad cop. No donut.
7. You're not going to check the trunk, are you?
8. Is it true that people become cops because they are too dumb to work at McDonalds?
9. I pay your salary
10. Gee officer, that's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning.
11. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.
12. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there is no other cars around, that's how far they are ahead of me.
13. What do you mean have I been drinking? You are the trained specialist.