Muffled Workers

The winters are fierce where he lives, so the owner of the estate felt He
was doing a good deed when he bought earmuffs for his foreman.

Noticing, however, that the foreman wasn't wearing the earmuffs even
on the bitterest day, the landlord asked, "Didn't you like the muffs?"

The Foreman said, "They're a thing of beauty."

"Why don't you wear them?"

The Foreman explained, "I was wearing them the first day, and
somebody offered to buy me lunch, but I didn't hear him!
Never again, never again!"