Thursday, May 08, 2008

Every Family Needs One

Subject: Salesman"s delight

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick.
His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change. One day
John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot
that John claimed was actually a lie detector.

It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late. "Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked John.

"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said
Tommy. The robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking
him completely out of his chair.

"Son," said John, "this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you
really were after school."

"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie." said Tommy.

"What did you watch?" asked Marsha.

"The Ten Commandments." answered Tommy. The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair once more. With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen."

"I am ashamed of you son," said John."When I was your age, I never lied to
my parents." The robot then walked around to John and delivered a whack that
nearly knocked him out of his chair.

Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said, "Boy, did you ever ask for that one! You can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!" With that the robot immediately walked around to Marsha and slapped her three times.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who belongs to whom? Sounds funny to me.

Annake said...

Hm, sounds like Marsha has some 'splaining to do! ;-)

Mississippi Songbird said...

lol. Thats a hoot. Thanks for making me laugh.. Have a great day!

Wanda said...

Boy the truth really "hurts"!!! Where did you say you can get one of those robots?? (HaHa)

Renie Burghardt said...

Uh-oh, Marsha was in a heap of trouble that night! Hahaha. Maybe a robot like that would be good to have around politicians.

Have a good night, Patty.

Renie