Collecting Jokes

Collecting Unemployment
Ole and Sven worked together and both were laid off, so they headed over to the unemployment office.
When Ole was asked his occupation, he replied, "Panty stitcher. I sew elastic onto cotton panties."
The clerk looked up panty stitcher and found it classed as unskilled labor, so she gave Ole $250 a week unemployment pay.
She then asked Sven what his occupation was, and he replied, "Diesel fitter."
Looking up diesel fitter, the clerk found it classed as skilled labor, so she gave Sven $500 a week.
When Ole found out, he was furious. He stormed back in to find out why his friend and co-worker was collecting double the amount that he was.
"Panty stitchers are unskilled and diesel fitters are skilled labor," the clerk explained.
"What skill?" Ole yelled. "I sew the elastic on, Sven pulls on it and says, 'Ya, diesel fitter'!"

Three Pastors met, a Nigerian Pastor, Ghanian Pastor and a Cameroonian Pastor. They were discussing what they did with offerings from the Church. The Nigerian Pastor said, after collecting offerings from the Church, he draws a circl, he stands in the middle of the circle, he throws the offerings (money) up, anyone that falls within the circle is for him, anyone that falls outside the circle is for God (Church). Ghanian pastor said, after collecting offerings, he draws a straight line, he throws the offering up, any one that falls on the right side is for him, anyone that falls on the left is for God. Tha Camerronian Pastor looks up and said, for him, after collecting the offerings, he looks up and throws the offering up anyone that falls back to the ground is for him, and anyone that stays up there is for God. How mean can a Money Pastor be!!!.

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny.Many folks have written with perfectly plausible explanations about why merchants take my phone number on a credit card charge. What these fail to address, however, is that if I'm perpetrating a fraud in the use of this credit card, I'm not about to give out a correct phone number. They make no effort to validate the phone number before I leave, so what they're doing is collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of honest people.Now then... Why are they collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of honest people? I once asked why you are asked for your phone number when using your charge cards. The clerk explained that theives have been caught because they stupidly put down THEIR home phone number, not the phone number of the person who "owned" the card.

A wife and her husband were having a dinner party for some important guests. The wife was very excited about this and wanted everything to be perfect. At the very last minute, she realized that she didn't have any snails for the dinner party, so she asked her husband to run down to the beach with the bucket to gather some snails.
Grudgingly, he agreed. Grabbing a bucket, he walked out the front door, down the steps and out to the beach. As he was collecting the snails, he spotted a beautiful woman walking alongside the water just a little further down the beach.
"Wouldn't it be great if she would even just come down and talk to me?" he kept thinking to himself as he continued collecting the snails.
Suddenly he looked up and the beautiful woman was standing right over him. They started talking and ended up going back to her place, where they spent the night together. He woke up very early the next morning and exclaimed, "Oh no! My wife's dinner more...

This is, without a doubt, the funniest collection letter that I have even seen! Someone must have been having a really frustrating day when they wrote this. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Share it with others can get a good laugh too.
(DATE)
(COMPANY)
(ADDRESS)
(ADDRESS)
(CITY, STATE, ZIP)
Attention: ________________
Dear ___________________:
Will you get off your dead ass and take care of your obligations! We are still holding the insufficient check that we called you on over a month ago. I know you told me you were waiting to get paid for a job that was due over a year ago. Get real. If they have not paid you yet they are probably not going to. That is not our problem.
Girl, you are going to go to jail if you do not pay for this check. We are not willing to wait any longer for our money. If I had my way, we would not sell you any product at all. You are not a good risk. We put you on open account and you drug your feet in paying us, so we more...