Monkey Business
Friday, January 20th, 2006A lorry driver breaks down in Manhattan with a cargo of 20 live monkeys on board, bound for the Bronx Zoo. They need to be delivered by 9:00 am and the driver fears he will lose his job if they don’t get there on time. He decides to try and hitch a lift for his monkeys and eventually a French trucker pulls over.
“Where they going ?” asks the Frenchman.
“Do me a favour and take these to the Bronx Zoo for me” says the driver, “and here’s a hundred bucks for your troubles.”
“Happy days,” says the Frenchman, “No problem”. And loads the monkeys onto his truck and gets on his way.
The lorry driver goes about trying to fix his truck and is there for a good few hours when, suddenly, he notices the French trucker coming back towards him on the other side of the road, still with all the chimps on board. Panicking, he flags him down again.
“What are you playing at,” he fumes, “I told you to take them to the Bronx Zoo!”
“I did,” says the Frenchman, “but we enjoyed ourselves so much, and there is still fifty bucks left, so now we’re going to Central Park.”