Finally, the family decided that maybe if she saw the statistics she'd be convinced. So they sent her to a friend of the family who was an actuary. "Tell me," she said suspiciously, "what are the chances that someone will have a bomb on a plane?"
The actuary looked through his tables and said, "A very small chance. Maybe one in five hundred thousand."
She nodded, then thought for a moment. "So what are the odds of two people having a bomb on the same plane?"
Again he went through his tables. "Extremely remote," he said. "About one in a billion."
Aunt Bessie nodded and left his office. And from that day on, every time she flew, she took a bomb with her.
Questions
1. What did Great Aunt Bessie love?
2. Where did her relatives live?
3. What did she hate?
4. What did she read?
5. What did the familly decide?
6. Where did they send her?
7. What was the first question she asked him?
8. And the second?
9. What does she do whenever she flies now?
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