I Saw Him Jump

Two pals are sitting in a pub watching the eleven-o’clock news. A report comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20^th floor of a downtown building. One friend turns to the other and says, “I’ll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn’t jump.”

“It’s a bet,” agrees his buddy.

A few minutes later, the man on the ledge jumps, so the loser hands his pal a $10 bill. “I can’t take your money,” his friend admits. “I saw him jump earlier on the six-o’clock news.”

“Me, too,” say the other buddy. “But I didn’t think he’d do it again!”

Ohio Motorist, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June, 1994, p. 72