I AM FINE
Added on: 2nd Dec 2013
AN OLD FARMER NAMED CLYDE HAD A CAR ACCIDENT.
IN COURT, THE TRUCKING COMPANY’S FANCY LAWYER WAS
QUESTIONING CLYDE.
“DIDN’T YOU SAY AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT, ‘I’M FINE,’?”
ASKED THE LAWYER.
CLYDE RESPONDED, “WELL, I’LL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED.
I HAD JUST LOADED MY FAVORITE MULE, BESSIE, INTO THE……”
“I DIDN’T ASK FOR ANY DETAILS,” THE LAWYER INTERRUPTED.
“JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION. DID YOU NOT SAY,
AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT, “I’M FINE!’?”
CLYDE SAID, “WELL, I HAD JUST GOT BESSIE INTO THE TRAILER
AND WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD….”
THE LAWYER INTERRUPTED AGAIN AND SAID,
“JUDGE, I AM TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT AT THE SCENE OF
THE ACCIDENT, THIS MAN TOLD THE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN ON
THE SCENE THAT HE WAS JUST FINE.
NOW SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER THE ACCIDENT HE IS TRYING TO SUE
MY CLIENT. I BELIEVE HE IS A FRAUD.
PLEASE TELL HIM TO SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION.”
BY THIS TIME, THE JUDGE WAS FAIRLY INTERESTED IN
CLYDE’S ANSWER AND SAID TO THE LAWYER,
“I’D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT
HIS FAVORITE MULE, BESSIE.”
CLYDE THANKED THE JUDGE AND PROCEEDED,
“WELL… AS I WAS SAYIN’, I HAD JUST LOADED BESSIE,
MY FAVORITE MULE, INTO THE TRAILER AND WAS DRIVIN’ HER
DOWN THE HIGHWAY WHEN THIS HUGE SEMI RAN THE STOP SIGN
AND SMACKED MY TRUCK RIGHT IN THE SIDE.
I WAS THROWN INTO ONE DITCH AND BESSIE WAS THROWN
INTO THE OTHER. I WAS HURTIN’ REAL BAD AND DIDN’T WANT TO MOVE.
HOWEVER, I COULD HEAR OLE BESSIE MOANIN’ AND GROANIN’.
I KNEW SHE WAS IN TERRIBLE SHAPE JUST BY HER GROANS.
REAL SOON A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN CAME ON THE SCENE.
HE COULD HEAR BESSIE MOANIN’ AND GROANIN’, TOO.
SO, HE WENT OVER TO HER. AFTER HE LOOKED AT HER,
HE TOOK OUT HIS GUN AND SHOT HER BETWEEN THE EYES.
THEN THE PATROLMAN CAME ACROSS THE ROAD, GUN IN HAND,
LOOKED AT ME, AND SAID, ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’
NOW WHAT THE HECK WOULD YOU SAY?”
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