Dear Campus Sports Fans

A sports fan was sitting in the top row at the Super Bowl, barely able to
see the field. He noticed a vacant seat about 3 rows back on the 50-yard
line. It was still vacant when the second quarter started, so he went down
and asked the man seated next to it if anyone was sitting there.

The man said "No, have a seat." A few minutes later he asked the man if he
knew whose seat this        was and why they weren't here at such an
important event. The man said that for ten years it had been his wife's
seat but that she had passed away.

Feeling sorry for the nice man, the fan asked if he didn't have a friend or
family member that he could have offered the seat to instead of just
leaving it vacant. The man said "No, they're all at the funeral."



Cheers,

John A. Lynch, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, #2252
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598


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