Have you ever bought anything and felt immediately ripped off? I’ll tell you who does this in my house: my husband. He has a bad habit of buying things that he sees from random online ads and very often, the websites are shady as can be. For example, he saw these cat toys online that are big fish that are supposed to flop around. He bought them from a little website that doesn’t even have contact information on it. For sure, it was a dropship website and I knew that when he told me it would take a month for the fish to arrive. I’ve never seen him wait so excitedly for something. Sure enough, when the fish came, they barely worked and were way too big for any cat to play with. I insisted my husband return them, and I wasn’t one bit surprised when he said they weren’t responding to his emails. You win some and you lose some, but I told him from now on, I have to look at the website before he buys something. The man in the joke below was smarter than most people who get suckered into a bad purchase, though. He handled this beautifully. A great idea. Enjoy this hilarious joke and this ingenious (but probably illegal!) idea.
A young man named Chuck bought a horse from a farmer for $250. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day, the farmer drove up to Chuck’s house and said, “Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the horse died.”
Chuck replied, “Well, then just give me my money back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
Chuck said, “Okay, then, just bring me the dead horse.”
The farmer asked, “What ya gonna do with him?”
Chuck said, “I’m going to raffle him off.”
The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead horse!”
Chuck said, “Sure I can, Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.”
A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, “What happened with that dead horse?”
Chuck said, “I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at five dollars apiece and made a profit of $2495.”
The farmer said, “Didn’t anyone complain?”
Chuck said, “Just the guy who won. So I gave him his five dollars back.”
