When we get older, we often get wiser and we can use that knowledge in many different ways. Perhaps we may use it to help others and there may be times when people come to us with questions that only our experience will help us to answer. At other times, however, we may use the wisdom for more personal reasons and perhaps even to help ourselves. That was exactly what happened in the following joke when an old man found himself in a situation that was too good to be true. Rather than letting it pass, he figured out a way to capitalize on the situation.
Ron, an elderly man in Florida, had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some orange and lime trees.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn’t been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.
As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence, and they all went to the deep end.
One of the women shouted to him, “We’re not coming out until you leave!”
Ron frowned, “I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.”
Holding the bucket up Ron said, “I’m here to feed the alligator.”
Some old men can still think fast!!
