The Penguins Go to the Bronx Zoo

 Another Fine Post from Fran Fahey of  Fran’s Fine Editing

     So the joke goes something like this, with a few embellishments:

     Mr. Brown was traveling through Kansas and met a guy selling penguins at $2.00 each. “What a great deal,” he thinks. He calls the Bronx Zoo, who tells him that they’ll buy as many penguins as he can sell them at $90.00 each, so he buys 129 of them to bring to New York.

     Around Hackensack, NJ, Mr. Brown’s car breaks down. While he’s waiting for AAA, a Good Samaritan stops to help him, and Mr. Brown says, “Would you take these penguins to the Bronx Zoo?” The guy agrees to help, loads all 129 penguins into his car, and takes off.

     In the Bronx, Mr. Brown gets into a major bumper-to-bumper traffic jam. As he creeps closer to the zoo, he sees people lined up along the sides of the street, pointing and laughing. As he pulls up to the zoo, he sees the guy who helped him walking along the sidewalk, trailed by a line of penguins holding balloons. “What the heck?” he says to the guy. “I asked you to take them to the zoo!”

     “Sure, I did,” the guy said. “But I had a little money left over, so I’m taking them to the movies!”

Moral of the story?

 Be careful how you word things. You just may get exactly what you ask for.

Fran Fahey

Fran’s Fine Editing