Don't Give An Answer Unless The Question Is Clear!

Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010

A Mrs. Clifton Hord of Baird, Texas tells about a rather strange reply to a request for a campground reservation. Mrs. Hord says that it actually happened to one of her friends, but you be the judge. Here's the tale: My friend is a rather old-fashioned lady, always quite delicate & elegant, especially in her language. She & her husband were planning a week's vacation in Florida, so she wrote to a particular campground and asked for a reservation.

She wanted to make sure the campground was fully equipped, but didn't quite know how to ask about the toilet facilities. She just couldn't bring herself to write the word "toilet" in her letter. After much deliberation, she finally came up with the old-fashioned term "Bathroom Commode". But when she wrote that down, she still thought she was being too forward. So she started all over again, rewrote the entire letter, and referred to the bathroom commode merely as the "B.C.". Does the campground have its own B.C. is what she actually wrote. Well the campground owner wasn't old-fashioned at all, and when he got the letter he just couldn't figure out what the woman was talking about. That B.C. really stumped him. After worrying about it for a while, he showed the letter to several campers, but they couldn't imagine what the lady meant either. So the campround owner, finally coming to the conclusion that the lady must be asking about the location of the Baptist Church, sat down and wrote the following reply:

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