Mirror Joke
An old man and his wife lived deep in the hills and seldom saw
many people.
One day a peddler came by to sell his goods and asked the man if
he or his wife
wanted to buy something. "Well, my wife ain't home, she's
gone down to the creek
to wash clothes, but lemma see what you got," said the man.
The peddler showed
him pots and pans, tools and gadgets, but the old man wasn't
interested. Then
the man spotted a mirror and said, "What's that?" Before
the peddler could tell
him it was a mirror, the old man picked it up and said, "My
God how'd you get a
picture of my Pappy?" The old man was so happy, he traded his
wife's best
pitcher for it. The peddler left before the wife came back and
spoiled his sale.
The old man was worried that the wife would be mad at him for
trading her best
pitcher, so he hid it in the barn behind some boxes of junk. He
would go out to
the barn 2 or 3 times a day to look at the "picture" and
eventually the wife got
suspicious. One day she got fed up and after he retired for the
night, she went
out to the barn. She saw the mirror behind the boxes, picked it up
and said,
"so this is the hussy he's been foolin' around with!"