» Business Jokes http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog Tips and advice for the small business owner Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Husband day care a cute business idea http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2011/03/cute-business-idea/ http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2011/03/cute-business-idea/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:23:11 +0000 admin http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/?p=500 New businesses are springing up everywhere as more Canadians take control of their destiny and take up self-employment.

There are doggie day care centers, after school day care, toddler day care, caregiver placement agencies, nurse next door franchise for short term caregivers, or rent-a-grandma domestic agencies. So, how about this one?


A Husband Day Care Center? (cute poster from verydemotivational.com)

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An optometrist was instructing a new employee on how to charge a customer.  “As you are fitting these glasses, if she asks how much they cost, you say $150.”

“If her eyes don’t flutter, say, ‘for the frames. The lenses will be $100′.”

“If her eyes still don’t flutter, you add ‘each’.”

(courtesy of  Coffee Time, Feb 2010 edition)

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