Joke and an anecdote

So I was talking to my sister's boyfriend, who's a complete idiot with a thick southern accent, about ten years ago. I tried to tell him a joke by starting out with "have you ever smelled mothballs?"

He said "what? No what's that?"

Then I have to go into explaining what mothballs are, which destroyed the joke, and he's still really confused. So I try to explain the joke to him and say "well if you said yes I was gonna say 'how did you spread their little legs apart?'"

So now this kid, who 17 seconds ago didn't know what a mothball was, exclaimed "mothballs don't have legs, haha!," like I'm some kind of retard who thought that these things I literally just described to him actually had legs.

So yeah that was annoying.



Side note: I haven't seen him in like 8 years, when he and my sister broke up, so I just Googled him and he apparently died recently by driving into a lake.