The Divorce Joke

Jim had a blind date and arrived in the busy bar and went to an empty seat by the bar.

"This seat taken?" he asked and the guy to his left shook his head.

Jim looked around him.

"You waiting for someone? I'm going to leave in a few minutes," said George. "You can have this seat as well." He drained his whiskey shot.

"I'm here on a blind date to meet someone called Debbie," explained Jim. "She said she was looking for someone with a sense of humor so she went for my profile."

George smiled. "I used to make my ex-wife laugh a lot before the divorce. I used to love telling her jokes. Then one day I told her this joke I made up and she divorced me."

"No way," said Jim. "How long were you married?"

"We were heading for our tenth anniversary. All over some joke." George shook his head.

Jim was curious. "Really just a joke?"

George nodded. "Regular joke I made up. Then bam, everything changed, she got and just walked out on me and we never spoke again as man and wife."

"So would this joke get you sent to jail?"

"No" replied George.

"So it's racist?"

"No"

"Minorities"

"No"

"Disabled"

"No"

"Sexist?"

"No, it's just a regular joke..."

Jim was curious. "Ok so tell me the joke."


George leaned in and quietly told Jim the joke. He was smiling until George told him the punch line and then the blood seemed to drain out of Jim's cheeks. Jim leaned back and then just looked at George and knocked back his drink. He shook his head and walked out of the busy bar.

George just turned and looked into his drink.

Everyone he had told the joke to had walked out on him.

The reaction had always been the same and George could not understand it.

A couple of minutes later a woman arrived, looking around her.

"Debbie?" he asked. "You're here on a blind date?"

She nodded.

"Hi, I'm George. Jim had to go."

"Oh," she said.

"You want to hear a joke?" asked George.