Flat Tire

"Stuck"*

*During training exercises, the lieutenant who was
driving down a muddy back road encountered
another car stuck in the mud with a red-faced
colonel at the wheel.

"Your jeep stuck, sir?" asked the lieutenant as he
pulled alongside.

"Nope," replied the colonel, coming over and
handing him the keys, "Yours is."

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"Flat Tire"*

*Jones is driving past the state mental hospital when his
left rear tire suffers a flat. While Jones is changing the tire,
another car goes by, running over the hub cap in which
Jones was keeping the lug nuts. the nuts are all knocked
into a nearby storm drain.

Jones is at a loss for what to do and is about to go call
a cab when he hears a shout from behind the hospital
fence, where one of the inmates has been watching the whole thing.

"Hey, pal! Why don't you just take one lug nut off each
of the other three wheels? That'll hold your tires on until
you can get to a garage or something."

Jones is startled by the patient's seeming rationality, but
realizes the plan will work, and installs the spare tire
without incident. Before he leaves, he calls back to the
patient. "You know, that was pretty sharp thinking. Why
do they have you in there?"

The patient smiles and says, "I'm in here because I'm crazy,
not because I'm stupid."
Received on Wed Sep 8 07:38:58 2010