The IRS Audit

At the end of the tax year, the IRS office sent an inspector to audit
the books of a local hospital. While the IRS agent was checking the
books, he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy
a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's
too little left to be of any use?"

"Good question ," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back
to the bandage company and every once in a while, they send us a free
roll."

"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
question had a practical answer.

But on he went, in his obnoxious way. "What about all these plaster
purchases? What do you do with what's left over after setting a cast on
a patient?"

"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
the manufacturer and every so often they will send us a free bag of
plaster."

"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
remains from the circumcision surgeries?"

"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save
all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS office, and about
once a year they send us a complete prick."