SOURCE:    By Elaine Viets
PUBLICATION: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
DATE: September 4, 1991
SECTION: EVERYDAY

EDITION: 5*
PAGE: 3E
WORD COUNT: 722
ID#: 4910048381

I DON'T KNOW why Verla Thaier did this to me. Verla is a waitress. She works at the Womans Exchange, which is not where you exchange women.

Anyway, I've always tipped Verla well.

OK, I've always tipped her.

Well, almost always. I'm a little absent-minded and I might have stiffed her once or twice.

But I certainly didn't deserve this. Verla sent me a list of more than 50 light bulb jokes.

This is like introducing a recovering alky to your pal Jack Daniel's. I...

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