A man is in bed with his wife
when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on the door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half past three in
the
morning.
"I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and
rolls over.
Then, a louder knock follows. "Aren't you going to answer
that?" says his
wife. So he drags himself out of bed, and goes downstairs. He opens
the
door and there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the
homeowner
long to realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there." slurs the stranger, "Can you give me a
push??" "No, get
lost, it's half past three. I was in bed." says the man and
slams the
door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says
"Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we
broke down in
the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby-sitter
and
you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What
would
have happened if he'd told us to get lost??"
"But the guy was drunk." says the husband.
"It doesn't matter." says the wife. "He needs our
help and it would be
the right thing to do."
So the husband out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.
He
opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he
shouts:
"Hey, do you still want a push??" and he hears a voice cry
out "Yeah
please."
So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts: "Where
are you?"
And the stranger replies: "I'm over here, on your swing."