ANGER AND EXASPERATION

A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her
father and asked, "Dad, what is the difference between anger
and exasperation?"

The father replied, "It is mostly a matter of degree. Let me
show you what I mean."

With that the father went to the telephone and dialed a
number at random. To the man who answered the phone, he
said, "Hello, is Melvin there?"

The man answered, "There is no one living here named Melvin.
Why don't you learn to look up numbers before you dial".
"See," said the father to his daughter. "That man was not a
bit happy with our call. He was probably very busy with
something and we annoyed him. Now watch...."

The father dialed the number again. "Hello, is Melvin there?"
asked the father.

"Now look here!" came the heated reply. "You just called
this number and I told you that there is no Melvin here!

You've got lot of guts calling again!" The receiver slammed
down hard.

The father turned to his daughter and said, "You see, that
was anger. Now I'll show you what exasperation means."

He dialed the same number, and when a violent voice roared,
"Hello!"

The father calmly said, "Hello, this is Melvin. Have there
been any calls for me?"