I used to live in Queens, NY and back then I had a Shoprite supermarket later to be replaced by an organic Korean 24-hour market. One day, I went to the supermarket to do some grocery shopping. When I was at the appetizing counter, I heard an amazing story. The deli-man related to me that an elderly woman had come to his section and made an unusual request.
“Good afternoon sir, I would like a pound of the kosher ham.” Remarked the elderly woman.
The man behind the counter replied, “Lady there is no such thing as kosher ham.”
The woman became a bit more agitated and stated, “I want a pound of the kosher ham!”
The grocery clerk responded again even more firmly, “Lady, there is no such thing.”
The woman became visibly angry and said in an exasperated voice, “Yes there is, my daughter has been giving it to me for years.”
Life Lesson 3: I felt bad for the old woman’s story, angry at the daughter, but just a bit impressed at her deviousness. As I pondered the lie she told, it made me wonder that if man can walk on the moon, use stem cells to build organs, clone sheep, why not create kosher ham? Maybe it could happen, but probably only in New York, because as Sinatra crooned “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”
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