PAOLO'S PRIDE

Paolo Pialla walks to work 20 blocks every day and passes a shoe store.

Each day he stops and looks in the window and admires a certain pair of Boccelli leather shoes.

He wants those shoes so much it's all he can think about.

After 2 months he saves $300 for them.

Every Friday night the Italian community gets together at a dance at the Veneto Club, so Paolo seizes the opportunity to wear his new Boccelli leather shoes to the dance.

He askes Sophia to dance, and as they dance he asks her, "Sophia, do you wear red panties tonight?"

"Yes, Paolo, I do wear red panties tonight, but how do you know?"

Paolo replies, "I see the reflection in my new $300 Boccelli leather shoes. How do you like them?"

Next he asks Rosa to dance, and after a few minutes he says to her, "Rosa, do you wear white panties tonight?"

Rosa answers, "Yes, Paolo, I do, but how do you know that?"

He answers, "I see the reflection in my new $300 Boccelli leather shoes. How do you like them?"

Now as the evening is almost over and the last song is being played, Paolo asks Carmella to dance.

Midway through the dance his face turns red.

He says, "Carmella, be stilla my heart. Pleasa tella me you wear no panties tonight, pleasa, pleasa, tella me thisa be true!"

Carmella smiles coyly and answers, "Yes Paolo, I wear no panties tonight."

Paolo gasps and says, "Thanka God... I thought I had a CRACK in my new $300 Boccelli leather shoes."