The salesman checks his notes and tells the man that it will
be two years to the exact week. The man thanks the salesman
and starts out again, but upon reaching the door, he turns back
again.
"Could you possibly tell me what day of the week two years
from now the car will arrive?" The salesman, mildly annoyed,
checks his notes again and says that it will be exactly two years
from this week, on Thursday. The man thanks the salesman
and once again starts to leave.
Halfway though the door, he hesitates, turns back, and walks
up to the salesman.
"I'm sorry to be so much trouble, but do you know if that will
be
two years from now on Thursday in the morning, or in the
afternoon?" Visibly irritated, the salesman flips through
his
papers yet another time and says sharply that it will be in the
afternoon, two years from now on Thursday.
"That's a relief!" says the man. "The plumber is coming
in the
morning!"