“You open the door and put the elephant in,” Jacob replied.
Then he asked, “How do you put a giraffe in the refrigerator?”
Confident now, the teacher answered, “You open the door and put the giraffe in?”
Jacob shook his head. “No. You open the door, take the elephant out, and then put the giraffe in.”
A few students started laughing.
Jacob wasn’t done. “All the animals were invited to the lion’s birthday party, but one animal didn’t show up. Which one was it?”
The teacher thought for a moment. “The lion?”
“No,” Jacob said. “The giraffe. He’s still in the refrigerator.”
The class laughed louder.
Jacob smiled and asked his final question. “If you needed to cross a river full of alligators, how would you do it?”
The teacher said carefully, “I’d cross the bridge.”
Jacob replied, “Nope. You’d swim across—because all the alligators are at the lion’s birthday party.”
Sometimes the simplest logic leads to the biggest laughs.
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