... right in front of an insane asylum. "Dagnabbit!" he cursed as he pulled a jack and a tire iron from his trunk. Just then he noticed a man in a white hospital gown staring at him from up on a hill behind the wrought iron bars.
The driver set about his task. He popped the hubcap off, loosened the lug nuts a bit, jacked the car up, then pulled the nuts off, putting each into the hupcap. He looked over to see the guy in the gown had moved closer.
As the driver carried the spare tire over, he accidentally stepped on the hubcap, sending the lugnuts flying. They bounced and bounced -- all of them rolling directly into a storm drain and disappearing 20 feet down the sewer!
"Blast it!" the driver yelled. "What in blazes am I to do now?!" he bellowed.
Just then the man in the gown, who had moved all the way down opposite of the car, said, "I have an idea." The driver, at his wit's end, said, "Yeah, OK, I'm all ears."
"Well," the gowned man said, pushing his face between the bars, "you could take one lugnut off each tire and put them on the spare. It won't get you all the way home, but there's a gas station a few miles up the road and you could get some more nuts there."
"That's brilliant," said the driver and quickly followed the advice.
After he put his tools back in the trunk, he walked over to the fence. "Thanks again," he said. "But before I go, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure," the man said.
"How'd you come up with that great idea if you're in an insane asylum?"
And the man said, "Hey, I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid."
My dad told me that joke when I was like 10, and he's said the punchline a hundred times at various points in my life over the next 40 years. Thought you guys should know it.
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