Roy's Favorite Joke

Way back in the 1980's. Me and My first wife hadn't been married very long. Tasha was just a baby.

I had been working at a mobile home plant running wires in mobile homes and I had just gotten laid-off. Fired. Canned.

Looking for work at that time and having very little experience at anythings made finding a job really really hard. Only real resource for jobhunting was the daily newspaper.

There was an ad in the Dallas Newspaper. Help wanted: no experience needed.apply at Dallas Zoo.

No experience needed..that fit me perfectly so I went and applied for the job. WOO HOO I got it.

They told me to show up the next morning and I could get started.So I showed up bright and early ready to work.

They immediately took me to a room and gave me a gorilla suit. It seems that thier gorilla had died and they needed a gorilla really bad and I just happened to be the right size to fit the suit. I know I know...small gorilla huh.

anyways....it turned out to be a pretty good gig. I would go out and swing from a rope and go ugh a few times and scratch alot and it seemed to satisfy people. They told me that I could do just about anything except TALK.

One day I was swinging on my rope and these kids were watching me and laughing and The higher I swung the more they laughed . So I kept swinging higher and higher and then.....THE ROPE BROKE..... I went flying through the air like a great big fur coated baseball and I landed right in the Lion cage.

I stood up and turned around and next thing I know I am face to face with a big ole lion. I think that Lion knew I wasn't really a gorilla, I was scared
I took one step backwards
the lion took one step forwards.
I took another step backwards
the lion took another step forwards
I took another step backwards and there was a tree branch behind me and I fell flat on my back.

Next thing I know there is a LIon right on top of me. I didn't care what the rules were ....I sreamed "HELP!!!!"

and the Lion said "SSSSHHHHH you will get us both fired!"