In the pretty little village of Ticklemedo in County Cork, Ireland, the widow O'Kennedy wanted to have her new porch creosoted.
She telephoned the local man who specialised in such things to ask him for a quote.
Paddy O'Biden made some calculations on the back of his betting-slip, then diligently sent off his estimate to Mrs O'Kennedy. The figure was approved, and he promised to come the following week.
Paddy O'Biden arrived around lunchtime, and after a sandwich, a bottle of Guinness, and a short nap, he immediately set to work.
When all was finished he knocked on the kitchen door where he was offered a cup of tea and a slice of buttered Soda Bread.
"Oh, and before I go" he said to the widow O'Kennedy, as he rose to leave, "that isn't a Porsche you've got there, it's a Volkswagen.
Boom boom.
That gave me a laugh on this already too hot morning. Is it cooler by the coast?
ReplyDeleteVery humid down here. I am sitting just in shorts.
DeleteI have heard funnier from your - but will overlook it as you must still be travel weary. Slightly cooler here so far today because storms seem to have surrounded us without actual arriving overhead.
ReplyDelete25 C max here today with high humidity. We're going out for a Pub' Lunch, so we don't want it too hot.
DeleteGroan!
ReplyDeleteCome on; it's funny!
DeleteOh dear oh dear oh dear. I should have seen that one coming. Of course I didn't.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy jokes that have a 'twist in the tail'.
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