“Can you look at this rash?”
“My back’s been hurting…”
“Does this mole look unusual?”
After an hour of these interruptions, the doctor sighed and asked the lawyer, “How do you handle people asking for free legal advice outside of work?”
The lawyer smirked. “Simple. I give them advice… and then I mail them a bill.”
The doctor blinked. “You’re joking.”
“Not at all,” said the lawyer.
Inspired (and slightly mischievous), the doctor decided to try it. The next day, he wrote bills for everyone who had asked him for medical advice at the party.
As he headed to the mailbox to send them, he found something already waiting for him: a bill… from the lawyer.