Snaquebite
12-03-2010, 15:43
A yankee motorist stopped his car on the outskirts of a smallsouthern town and asked directions from an elderly farmer working in a field with a horse-drawn plow. The farmer appeared to be in his late sixties, and the stranger was impressed with the vigor with which he tackled his chores.
"Aren't you a little old to be doing heavy work like this?" he asked.
"Ain't so bad," the farmer replied. "My pa is an awful big help."
"Your father is alive?"
"Yup. That's him up by the barn there, pitching manure."
The stranger spotted the old gentleman in the distance. "But that's amazing. How old is he, anyway?"
"Pa's 86."
"I can't believe it. A man his age ought not to be exerting himself like that."
"Well, ordinarily Grandpa is around to help."
"You have a grandfather? Good heavens, how old would he be?"
"Hundred and three."
"This is astonishing. Where is he now?"
"On his honeymoon."
"You mean to tell me that he just got married? Why on earth would a man his age want to do that?"
"Didn't want to. Had to."
"Aren't you a little old to be doing heavy work like this?" he asked.
"Ain't so bad," the farmer replied. "My pa is an awful big help."
"Your father is alive?"
"Yup. That's him up by the barn there, pitching manure."
The stranger spotted the old gentleman in the distance. "But that's amazing. How old is he, anyway?"
"Pa's 86."
"I can't believe it. A man his age ought not to be exerting himself like that."
"Well, ordinarily Grandpa is around to help."
"You have a grandfather? Good heavens, how old would he be?"
"Hundred and three."
"This is astonishing. Where is he now?"
"On his honeymoon."
"You mean to tell me that he just got married? Why on earth would a man his age want to do that?"
"Didn't want to. Had to."