Imagine the life of a police officer. They see some strange things and probably even stranger things than many of us realize. To them, it’s all in a day’s work, of course. They have dangerous jobs, and the strange and unusual stuff that’s not dangerous is probably entertaining to the, to a certain extent. I’m sure they’ve heard some doozy explanations in their careers. People say a cop’s instincts are dead-on. They can tell when someone’s lying, and when someone’s telling the truth. They hear so much all day, every day that nothing surprises them, but it’s best to just be honest. When it comes to elderly people, you’re usually going to get a lot more honesty than you do from some younger people. At a certain age, it just become about “what have I got to lose?”. In the joke below, that seems to totally be the case. This lady has an enterprise going on!
A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped and every once in a while a $20 fell out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a policeman stopped her, and said, “Ma’am, there are $20 bills falling out of that bag.”
“Oh, really? Darn it!” said the little old lady. “I’d better go back and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me, officer.
“Well, now, not so fast,” said the cop.“Where did you get all that money? You didn’t steal it, did you?”
“Oh, no, no”, said the old lady. “You see, my back yard is right next to a golf course.
A lot of golfers come and pee through a knothole in my fence, right into my flower garden. It used to really tick me off. Kills the flowers, you know. Then I thought, ‘why not make the best of it?’
So, now, I stand behind the fence by the knothole, real quiet, with my hedge clippers.
Every time some guy sticks his thing through my fence, I surprise him, grab hold of it and say, ‘O.K., buddy! Give me $20, or off it comes.'”
“Well, that seems only fair,” said the cop, laughing. “OK. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what’s in the other bag?”
“Not everybody pays.”
