Witty Professor

I work for a very humorous person, whose wit tickles your stomach at the most unexpected times. Here is a very recent one which I loved...

One of my labmates had gone on a month's leave and retured recently. Lets name him X. There is another labmate Y who has got his Comprehensive exam in a week's time, so he decided to give a mock presentation to his labmates and prof, as is the usual practice. It is also the tradition that whoever gives a lab talk or wastes his labmates' precious time :) has to compensate for that with coffee/tea and samosas & stuff. So when Mr Y is rambling about his project work on THE DAY, Mr X who landed up that morning after his break wanted to please our prof' to erase all hard feelings. Mostly a months break is too much a time and all work goes on a standstill which might evoke displeasures, if you can get what Iam talking about :)

So what does Mr X do to please prof', he gets up from his seat and walks around to offer biscuits/eatables to prof, which could have been done without much ado if he had just passed around the biscuits. Then he goes to get a cup of coffee specially for prof' which is usually served by the lab assistant. When we all are biting our teeth, waiting to get our hands on Mr X for his actions, prof coolly asks with mists in his eyes "You take good care of me, X will you marry me?"