A husband came home and was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, "The pharmacist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone." ​ Immediately, the husband drove downtown, confronted the pharmacist, and demanded an apology. ​ The pharmacist told him, "Now, just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I'd locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys.” ​ "Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire.” ​ "When I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the darn phone was ringing.” ​ He continued, "Then I had to break a roll of coins against the cash register drawer to make a change and they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the coins and the phone was still ringing.” ​ “When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke.” ​ "Meanwhile, the phone was still ringing with no let-up, and when I finally got back to answer it it was your wife wanting to know how to use a rectal thermometer. ​ Believe me, all I did was tell her."