(I am renting a car at the airport.)

GUY: Here’s your paperwork, sir. Now Alicia will show you where to pick up your car...and she may even tell you a joke.

(Alicia is a young, innocent-looking girl with a long ponytail.  She smiles.)

ME: Hey, I want to hear a joke.

ALICIA: Okay!  Why don’t women wear watches?

ME: Uh...hmmm...I don’t know.

ALICIA: They don’t need them!  The oven already has a clock!

ME: (surprised gurgle of laughter)

GUY: Told you she’d tell you a joke.

ME: (pointing at Alicia) She’s a female, right?

GUY: She is, she is.

ALICIA: Hey, it made you laugh!

ME: I think I laughed because you told that joke.  I can never tell that joke. I’ve gotten too used to my heart being inside my rib cage.