A man is in bed with his wife when they hear a rat-a-tat-tat
on the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half past three in
the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time", he thinks, and rolls
over. Then a louder knock follows.
"Aren't you going to answer that?"
asks his wife. So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the
door to see a man standing there. It doesn't take him long to realise the man is
drunk.
"Hi there", slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push?" "No,
get lost. It's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and slams the door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened. "Dave, that
wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain
on the way to collect the kids from the baby sitter and you had to knock on that
man's door? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost?"
"But
the guy was drunk," says the husband. "It doesn't matter," says the wife. "Go
downstairs and help him."
So the husband gets dressed and goes down to
help him. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he
shouts,"Hey, do you still want a push?"
He hears a voice cry out, "Yeah,
please."
Still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are
you?"
And the stranger replies," Over here on your
swing"
