Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 09, 2004

Transcript:

"We hired a contractor to re-tile our bathroom." "How'd you pick him?" "Well, I called sixty guys. Eight of them called me back." "I made appointments with the eight. Only one of them showed up, and he was three hours late. But by virtue of his just showing up, he got the job, for which I gave him and eight hundred dollar deposit." "And how'd the work turn out?" "I never heard from him again."