Category: Old Age Humiliations

A MATTER OF TIMING

A doddering old man leaning on his cane came to the American Consulate in Tel Aviv and applied for a US visa. The clerk expressed his regrets that the immigration-quota for the Middle East was used up for the next two decades.

“It would be best Grandpa if you returned home and reapplied in about twenty years,” – he jokingly advised.

The patriarch thanked him and shuffled towards the exit. Suddenly, something occurred to him and he turned back towards the clerk:

“You forgot to tell me, at what time should I be here?”

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