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            After we called for help with our backed-up sewage system, a man in a large truck arrived to pump out the septic tank.  As he proceeded with the dirty and difficult task, my mother made some small talk.  Then he asked her, “What does your husband do for a living?”

            “He’s a car salesman,” she replied.

            “Oh,” the serviceman said with a sympathetic lock.  “Well, 1 guess someone’s got to do it.”

Reader’s Digest, February- 2000, page 58