A man is in bed asleep 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 on 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. The right thing to do would be to help him."
So the husband gets out of bed again, dresses, 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??" 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."