To meet every situation which arises, and to do it in diplomatic language, is only the gift of the elect:
Waiter, bring me two fried eggs, some ham, a cup of coffee, and a roll, said a traveler in a city of the Middle West.
Bring me the same, said his friend, "but eliminate the eggs."
Yessir, said the waiter.
In a moment he came back, leaned confidentially and penitently over the table, and whispered:
We 'ad a bad accident just before we opened this mornin', sir, and the 'andle of the liminator got busted off. Will you take yer eggs fried, same as this 'ere gentleman?