Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) Subject: Changes in Perceptions Date: Sat, 23 Aug 97 19:20:04 EDT URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q1/drugd.html

Back in the early 80s, I was the only systems programmer supporting a VM system, and I carried a beeper. I looked disreputable, as usual, and was attending a movie (Poltergeist) when, just before the climax, my beeper went off. I held it to my ear, and couldn't understand the message, so I went out to call the message center (and never saw the end of the movie).

The thing that stuck in my mind, though, was the woman two rows behind me who turned to her friend and said, in a loud, obnoxious voice, "Him? He's a doctor?"

It is almost ten years later, and I again carry a beeper, and I still go to movies. I dread being beeped out of a movie, though. I can imagine the loud obnoxious voice from two rows back saying, "Him? He's a drug dealer?"