Joe and John were identical twins. Joe owned
an old dilapidated boat and kept pretty much
to himself. One day he rented out his boat to a
group of out-of-staters who sank it.
Joe spent all day trying to salvage as much stuff as he
could and was out of touch all that day and
most of the evening. Unbeknownst to him, his
brother John's wife died suddenly. When he
got back on shore he went into town...to pick up
a few things at the grocery.
A kind old woman there mistook him for John and said: "I'm so
sorry for your loss, You must feel terrible".
Joe, thinking she was talking about his boat
said: "Hell no! Fact is I'm sort of glad to be rid
of her. She was a rotten old thing from the
beginning. Her bottom was all shriveled up
and she smelled horrible. She was always
holding water.
She had a bad crack in the back and a pretty big hole too.
Every time I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like
crazy. I guess what finally finished her off was
when I rented her to those four guys looking
for a good time. I warned them that she wasn't
very good and smelled . But they wanted her
anyway. The damn fools tried to get in her all
at one time and she split right up the
middle......." The old woman fainted