“Joe David’s Big City Moment”

I’m told it’s been a while since I’ve told a Yankee joke on the porch. I will now rectify that situation, but I ask y’all to keep in mind that it’s all in good fun, okay? My readers think it’s only fair since Southerners continue to take so much flack in film and in print. We’re about the only remaining group of people that can be routinely mocked without the PC police throwing a fit and falling in it.

Once upon a time a young Southern boy named Joe David took his first trip into the big city to see the sights. Joe David was strolling around town trying to decide what in the world to do first when he happened to look up and see a man standing on the top of a tall building. Now, where Joe David came from, there wasn’t a building tall enough for a person to jump off and hurt himself, but he had seen plenty of people do that in the movies and something about the way the man was standing there told Joe David that this fellow was getting ready to jump.

Duly concerned about the stranger’s fate, Joe David immediately started thinking of things he could tell the man so he would want to live and he wouldn’t jump.

“Hey, you!” Joe David yelled. The man looked down at him. “Remember your wife,” yelled our country boy.

“She divorced me,” the man yelled back.

Undaunted, Joe David tried again. “Remember your children,” he hollered.

“They ran away,” said the man.

“Remember your parents,” yelled Joe David.

“They’re both dead,” said the man.

What now? Quickly, Joe David came up with what he felt sure would do the trick. “Remember Robert E. Lee!” he yelled.

The stranger moved closer to the edge. “Who’s Robert E. Lee?” he asked.

“Why, you crazy Yankee!” Joe David yelled. “Jump!”

Hugs,
Shellie