Question:Why was the son of an accountant for a U.S. manufacturing company forbidden to name his dog Fifo?

Answer: His Dad told him that all four-letter words starting with F are bad.

Last Tuesday, I performed another long, exhausting, internal audit with a client near my hometown in Chicago suburbia. I had written 10 solid nonconformities and presented the findings to my client just weeks after the registrar auditor had given the same client a clean bill of health and no incentive to improve. I guess it was called an internal audit because we stayed inside all day.

By the time I got home, I was spent and the last thing I wanted to do was think. When I entered our home, my wife Donna, called up from the basement from where we share an office, “Hi Hon! I’m in the basement. How was your day?”

I responded creatively, “Good! How was yours?’”

Donna said, “Great, I got so much done today.”

At that moment, I knew I was in trouble and that her accomplishments would generate additional tasks for me. I should’ve just pretended not to hear her and run upstairs to take a nap. When Donna says that she got “so much done,” it usually means that she has organized something, which usually means she wants me to organize something of mine, because my stuff is interfering with her organization.

So I politely yelled back, “That’s great!”

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