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came from a small town. There were two drugstores at the corner of Main Street and Broadway, across the street from each other. They had soda fountains (ice cream cones, malts, service counter, stools to sit on, etc.)
It was hard to get by in those days and equally hard to find a job to make a little extra money. One of the high school freshmen applied for a part time job at one of the drugstores...and was hired.
Having little to do in the way of entertainment, some of the seniors decided to play a trick on the new employee. During lunch hour when school was out and the owner was home for lunch, some of the seniors entered the drugstore and asked the freshman employee for a package of snake feathers.
The employee looked high and low for snake feathers, climbing a ladder, disarranging the displays and really working up a sweat. After a bit the seniors departed, laughing all the way back to the schoolhouse, relishing in the trick they had just played on the new employee.
The owner returned from lunch and was startled and visibly upset by the disorderly condition of the previously organized displays, asking the employee "What happened here?"
The employee responded "A customer came in asking for snake feathers and I pretty much tore up the drugstore looking for them."
The owner replied "There's no such thing as snake feathers. Anyone else coming in here and asking for anything stupid like that, just run them off, they're only jacking you around! We don't tolerate practical jokers here."
The following weekend, a gentleman entered the drugstore and asked for a package of mothballs. The employee replied "Just hit the road mister, a moth doesn't have balls any more than a snake has feathers!"
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