Complicated Order

A resident in a seaside hotel breakfast room called over the head waiter one morning and said, "I want two boiled eggs, one of them so undercooked it’s runny, and the other so over cooked it’s tough and hard to eat. Also grilled bacon that has been left on the plate to get cold; burnt toast that crumbles away as soon as you touch it with a knife; butter straight from the deep freeze so that it’s impossible to spread; and a pot of very weak coffee, luke-warm."

"That’s a complicated order sir," said the bewildered waiter. "It might be quite difficult."

The guest replied, "Oh, but that’s what you gave me yesterday!