[STL Geocaching] - Long day

  Walking through San Francisco's Chinatown, a tourist 
  from the Midwest was fascinated with all the Chinese 
  restaurants, shops, signs and banners. He turned a 
  corner and saw a building with the sign "Moishe 
  Plotnik's Chinese Laundry."
   
  "Moishe Plotnik?" he wondered. "How does that fit in 
  Chinatown?"   So he walked into the shop and saw a 
  fairly standard looking Chinese  laundry. He could see 
  that the proprietors were clearly aware of the 
  uniqueness of the name as there were baseball hats, 
  T-Shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the  logo 
  "Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry."
   
  There was also a fair selection of Chinatown souvenirs, 
  indicating that the name alone had brought many tourists 
  into the shop. The tourist selected a coffee cup as a 
  conversation piece to take back to his office.

  Behind the counter was a smiling old Chinese gentleman 
  who thanked him for his purchase.

  The tourist asked, "Can you tell me how this place got a 
  name like
   "Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry?"
  The old man answered, "Ahh... Everybody asks me that.  
  It's the name of the owner."
   
  Looking around, the tourist asked, "Is he here now?"
   
  "He is right here," replied the old man. "He is me."
   
  "Really?  How did you ever get a name like Moishe 
  Plotnik?"
   
  "Is simple," said the old man. "Many, many years ago 
  when I came to this country, I was standing in line at 
  the documentation center.  The man in front of me was a 
  Jewish gentleman from Poland. 

  "The lady at the counter looked at him and said, 'What 
  is your name?' "  He said, 'Moishe Plotnik.'
   
  "Then she looked at me and said, 'What is your name?'
   
  "I said, 'Sam Ting.'"

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