Joke 1 – The Call from Ernesto
At dawn the phone rings.
“Señor, this is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house. I’m sorry to say… your parrot has died.”
“My prize parrot?! What happened?”
“He ate rotten meat.”
“Who fed him that?!”
“No one, señor. He ate from the dead horse.”
“What dead horse?!”
“Mr. Lucky. He collapsed from pulling the water cart.”
“What water cart?!”
“The one we used to put out the fire.”
“WHAT FIRE?!”
“At your house. A candle tipped over and the curtains burned.”
“There’s electricity! Why a candle?”
“For the funeral.”
“WHAT FUNERAL?!”
“Your wife’s. She came late at night. I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Tiger Woods driver.”
Silence.
Finally—
“Ernesto… if you broke that driver, you’re fired.”
