They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What that means is that every person has their own idea of what is beautiful and what isn’t. A man may think his wife is beautiful, while another man might see her as average. Or a woman could think her husband is the most handsome man she’s ever met, while other women scratch their heads wondering what she sees in him. You just never know what attracts one person to another. And there’s a cruel twist of fate that sometimes makes people desire someone who doesn’t necessarily desire them. Isn’t that the worst thing ever? In the joke below, one guy thinks he’s won the lottery, he’s so lucky, but what the woman thinks is something different entirely.
There was a bad car accident on the highway involving three men. The cars were completely totaled, and the EMTs did everything they could to save the men, but they all died on their way to the hospital. They all get up to heaven and meet St. Peter at the gates.
St. Peter said, “Okay everyone can come in but whatever you do don’t step on a duck.” The gates open and there are ducks everywhere, all over the floor, on tabletops, everywhere.
The first guy walks in and accidentally steps on a duck. St. Peter comes along and handcuffs him to the ugliest woman in all the world and says, “Now you must stay handcuffed for all eternity.”
The other two see this and do their best not avoid the ducks.
The second guy goes months and months without stepping on any duck. Then one morning he wakes up, and as he is getting out of bed, he steps on two ducks. St. Peter comes over and handcuffs him to the most atrocious looking and smelling woman and say, “Now you must stay handcuffed to each other for all eternity.”
Now the third guy goes years and years and doesn’t step on any ducks in all that time. Then one day St. Peter comes along and handcuffs him to the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
St. Peter says, “Now you must stay handcuffed to each other for all eternity.” The guy happily says, “Oh my God, what have I done to deserve this?!”
And the woman says, “I don’t know what you did, but I stepped on a duck.”
