Have you ever been in a situation where you or someone you know says something that gets completely misinterpreted by an innocent bystander? This has happened to me a lot, and it’s even funnier when it happens without me (or the other person who’s embarrassing himself or herself) realizing what’s happening. And if you’ve ever been in a cab or an Uber and realized that something you and your family are talking about might seem really crazy to the driver, you’ll love this joke. In the joke below, a couple is taking a cab and the husband gets caught up trying to herd cats and dogs. What transpires is epically hilarious and we’re sure the cab driver is confused for the rest of the night.
Having been burgled in the past, we turned on a ‘night light’ and the answering machine, then put the cat in the backyard. When our cab arrived, we walked out of our front door and our rather tubby cat scooted between our legs inside, then ran up the stairs. Because our cat likes to chase our budgie we really didn’t want to leave them un-chaperoned so my husband ran inside to retrieve her and put her in the back yard again.
Because I didn’t want the taxi driver to know our house was going to be empty all evening, I explained to him that my husband would be out momentarily as he was just bidding goodnight to my mother. A few minutes later he got into the cab all hot and bothered, and said this (to my growing horror and amusement) as the cab pulled away:
“Sorry it took so long but the stupid b!tch was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her a$$ with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off so I grabbed her by the neck and wrapped her in a blanket so she wouldn’t scratch me like she did last time. But it worked! I hauled her fat arse down the stairs and threw her into the backyard… she had better not sh!t in the vegetable garden again.”
The silence in the taxi was deafening…
