A young boy, about eight years old, was at Tescos picking out a pretty good size box of washing powder. An assistant walked over, and, trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.
“Oh, no laundry,” the boy said, “I’m going to wash my dog.” “But you shouldn’t use this to wash your dog. It’s very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he’ll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him.”
But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it, even then the assistant still tried to talk him out of washing his dog.
About a week later the boy was back in the store to buy some sweets. The assistant asked the boy how his dog was doing.
“Oh, he died,” the boy said.
The assistant, trying not to be an “I-told-you-so”, said he was sorry the dog died but added, “I tried to tell you not to use that washing powder on your dog.”
“Well, the boy replied, “I don’t think it was the detergent that killed him.”
“Oh? What was it then?”
“I think it was the spin cycle!”
