One morning over breakfast, a husband was complaining to his wife. “I’ve been with the circus for over 25 years, and every performance I follow behind the elephants and clean up their poop. Twenty-five years, ‘Scoop the poop! Scoop the poop!’ I’m tired of it.”
His wife calmly said, “If you’re so unhappy, why don’t you quit?”
“What! And leave show business?!”
Joe, a lifetime miner, was working in the depths of the mine, as he usually did. Suddenly he started to feel confused and babbled nonsensically.
His fellow miners sent a message to a nearby hospital to send an ambulance to check on the confused worker.
When Joe reached the exit and stumbled out of his workplace, an ambulance driver confirmed Joe’s problem when he cried out: "Look, Joe’s out of his mine!"
When I was a kid, I wanted to play the guitar badly.
And after years of hard work, practice and dedication, I can now play the guitar... badly.
A local lumberyard was having an open house, and my mother really wanted to go. Dad, though, had no interest.
After badgering him with no luck, she finally said, “If you don’t go, I’ll be the only woman there.”
Dad shrugged. “If I go, you’ll still be the only woman there.”