FEMA
Cowboy
A modern day cowboy has spent many days crossing the Texasplains without water. His horse has already died of
thirst. He's crawling through the sand, certain that he has
breathed his last breath, when all of a sudden he sees an object sticking out of the
sand several yards ahead of him.
He crawls to the object, pulls it out of the sand, and discovers what looks to
be an old briefcase. He opens it and out pops a genie. But this is no ordinary
genie. She is wearing an FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) ID badge
and a dull gray dress.
There's a calculator in her pocketbook. She has a pencil tucked behind one ear.
"Well, cowboy," says the genie... "You know how I work....You
have three wishes."
"I'm not falling for this." said the cowboy... "I'm not going to
trust a FEMA genie."
"What do you have to lose? You've got no transportation, and it looks like
you're a goner!"
The cowboy thinks
about this for a minute, and decides that the genie is right. "OK! ,
I wish I were in a lush oasis with plenty of food and drink." ***POOF***
The cowboy finds himself in the most beautiful oasis
he has ever seen, and he is surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of
delicacies. "OK, cowpoke, what's your second wish."
"My second
wish is that I was rich beyond my wildest dreams." ***POOF***
The cowboy finds himself surrounded by treasure chests
filled with rare gold coins and precious gems.
"OK, cowpuncher,
you have just one more wish. Better make it a good one!"
After thinking for a few minutes, the cowboy says... "I wish that no
matter where I go, beautiful women will want and need me." ***POOF***
He turned into a tampon.
The moral of the story:
If
the government offers you anything, there's going to be a string attached.