The Smuggler


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Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He's got two large

bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, "What's in the

bags?"

"Sand," answers Juan.

The guard says, "We'll just see about that ~ get off the bike." The guard

takes the bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing

in them but sand. He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed,

only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.

The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the

man's shoulders, and lets him cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got?"

"Sand," says Juan.

The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags

contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, who crosses the

border on his bicycle.

This sequence of events if repeated every week for three years. Finally,

Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a cantina in

Mexico.

"Hey, Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling something. It's

driving me crazy. It's all I think about. I can't sleep. Just between you

and me, what are you smuggling?"

Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."

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