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Lawyer: Isn’t this your name on the bill?
Client: Yes.
Lawyer: Who handled it?
Client: One of your secretaries. The tall one with blonde hair.
Lawyer: Yes, yes. Miss Thompson. She’s very accurate. There is no doubt that 1_______.
Client: But this is too much for the service I received from your office. I didn’t even have the professional services of a real lawyer.
Lawyer: That doesn’t have anything to do with it. Here the charge is the same, whether I do the work personally or a secretary takes care of a routine matter such as yours.
Client: But … but it’s too much!
Lawyer: Sir, you take care of your business and I’ll take care of mine!
Client: Obviously, you don’t know who I am!
Lawyer: And who are you, sir?
Client: Now I understand this exorbitant bill.
Lawyer: What do you mean?
Client: Simply that 2_______ as you do.
Lawyer: Oh, well. Then there was an oversight. My secretary didn’t make a note of that fact. 3_______.
Client: Oh, that’s all right. It could happen to anyone.
Lawyer: So you are a member of my profession, eh? Well, in that case, I’ll give you a discount of seventy-five per cent.
Client: That’s better! Now that bill is for a reasonable sum, I’ll pay it right away. Here’s the money.
Lawyer: Thank you very much. I’ll hope that you’ll forgive this mistake.
Client: Naturally.
Lawyer: But tell me, friend, 4_______?
Client: Oh, I don’t have an office.
Lawyer: But you just told me that you had the same profession as I do.
Client: Yes, I did. I’m a thief, too!