Jokes The pharmacy

The pharmacy

A clerk in a small drugstore wasn't much of a salesman. He could never find the item the customer wanted, and finally his boss had had enough. "If you lose one more sale," the boss said, "it'll be your last."

Just then a man came in coughing. "May I help you, Sir?" the clerk asked.

"I need your best cough syrup," the sick customer said.

Try as he might, the wayward clerk could not find the good cough syrup, so remembering his boss' warning he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as the clerk said and then walked outside and leaned against a lamp post.

The boss had seen the whole thing, so after the customer left, he walked up to his clerk and asked what was up.

"He wanted something for his cough, but I couldn't find the cough medicine," the clerk said. "So, I substituted the laxative and told him to take it all at once."

"Ex-Lax?!" the boss exclaimed. "That won't cure a cough!"

"Sure it will!" the clerk said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamp post. "Just look at him. He's afraid to cough!"