Misc Jokes

Raffle Prize

The old farmer's mule had finally died of old age just
before spring planting, so the farmer made a trip to town to
buy another mule. His $125 didn't buy much, but he was
satisfied with his purchase and he made arrangements to
return the next day with a horse trailer to pick up the mule
and the dealer agreed to keep it overnight for him.

Early the next day, the old man returned. "Jim," said the
mule dealer, "that old mule died last night. I'm real sorry
to have to tell you this. I know you were counting on it for
your spring garden." The dealer offered Jim his money back,
but Jim said a bargain was a bargain, loaded the mule on his
truck and left.

A couple of months later the mule dealer happened to drive
by Jim's place and was astonished to see Jim working his
garden on a *NEW* $4,000 garden tractor. Honking his horn,
he called Jim over and asked him how in the world he had
managed to buy a tractor when not to long ago all he had was
the $125 that he'd spent on the mule that died.

"Well", Jim explains, "After leaving with the mule, I had
this idea. So I stopped off at the local print shop and had
2,000 $2 raffle tickets
printed up. Grand prize: Gardening Equipment. I sold all
the raffle tickets to people around town."

"Yeah, but where did you get the gardening equipment?"

"From you."

"No, I mean the equipment you had as the raffle prize."

"I got it from you."

"Jim, all you got from me was a dead mule."

"I know, that's what I raffled off."

"My Goodness, Jim! You raffled off a dead mule?! I'll bet
that really made a lot of people mad when they found out
about it."

"Naw, not really, the only one really ticked off was the
winner, and I gave him his money back."