Today's ghastly groaner

A goat herder goes out in the middle of the night to check on his son who is tending the herd. He finds him asleep. The father wakes his son and chides him for falling asleep on the job.

The son says his lamp wick burned out, so he wrapped himself in his blanket to keep warm and fell asleep. If he had a new wick, he would stay awake, he said.

The father answered, “Sorry son, no wick for the rested.”

— Don Glovick

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