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."