FARMER….
July 14th, 2005
A salesman was traveling through the countryside, selling insect
repellent. He came to a farmhouse and tried his pitch on the farmer.
“Sir, my bug spray is so good you will never be bitten again, I
guarantee it.”
The farmer was dubious. “Young man, I’ll make you a proposition.
I’ll tie you out in my cornfield buck naked, covered with that bug
spray. If there is not a single bite on you come morning, I’ll buy
a whole case from you.”
The salesman was delighted. They went to the field and he stripped.
The farmer sprayed him thoroughly with the bug spray and tied him to
a stake. Back to the house went the farmer.
The next morning, the farmer and his whole family tropped out to
the cornfield. Sure enough, the salesman was there, hanging in his
bonds, not a single bite on him.
Yet he was a total wreck! Pale ghastly, haggard, and drawn, but not
one bite on him.
The farmer was perplexed. “son,” he said, “now you don’t have a bite
on you, but you look like hell! What the devil happened?”
The salesman looked up through bloodshot eyes and croaked, “For
crying outloud, Mister, doesn’t that calf have a mother?!!!”