The Pickle Slicer
The following is a fun story from my book Leading Narratives: The perfect collection of stories, jokes and wits of wisdom for leaders.
Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had this urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer.
His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own.
One day, a few weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong.
“What's wrong, Bill?” she asked.
“Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?”
“Oh my God Bill, you didn't.”
“Yes, I did.”
“My God, Bill, what happened, are you okay?”
“I got fired.”
“No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?”
“Oh...she got fired too.”
Moral? Never assume you know all the facts even when someone is confiding in you.
Leading Narratives: The perfect collection of stories, jokes and wits of wisdom for leaders
By Dan Spainhour