From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!phs!dch Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: A True Story Article-I.D.: phs.575 Posted: Mon Jun 14 12:00:48 1982 Received: Tue Jun 15 01:04:44 1982 As is often the case, the best jokes come from real life. The following is a true story: A young girl, around the age of five, was still sucking her thumb, much to the annoyance of her mother. Her mother had tried for some months to get the girl to stop sucking her thumb, but without success. One day, the mother told the girl to stop sucking her thumb, and got the inevitable question "Why?". Realizing that the average answers had not had any effect on her daughter's habit, the mother told her daughter that if she didn't stop sucking her thumb, that her stomach would blow up like a big balloon. This response brought the conversation to an end, as the girl had to reflect over this new information. Well, for the next few days the girl didn't suck her thumb. Her mother, needless to say, was quite pleased. Everything was going along quite well until one day when the girl and her mother where riding a bus. The little girl had seen a very pregnant lady get on the bus. Once the bus was underway, the little girl got out of her seat, ran over the pregnant lady, and said "I bet I know what you've been doing."