Free meat
 

It was many years ago since the embarrassing day
when a young woman, with a baby in her arms,
entered his butcher shop and confronted him with
the news that the baby was his and asked what was
he going to do about it?

Finally he offered to provide her with free meat
until the boy was 16. She agreed.

He had been counting the years off on his
calender, and one day the teenager who had been
collecting the meat each week, came into the shop
and said, "I'll be 16 tomorrow."

"I know," said the butcher with a smile, "I've
been counting too, tell your mother, when you
take this parcel of meat home, that it is the
last free meat she'll get, and watch the
expression on her face."

When the boy arrived home he told his mother.
The woman nodded and said, "Son, go back to the
butcher and tell him I have also had free bread,
free milk, and free groceries for the last 16
years and watch the expression on HIS face!"