Ted worked in a factory, but he was not very good, and he lost his job one day. His wife looked in the newspaper and said, ‘One of the banks wants a guard.’
‘I’m going to go there tomorrow, Ted said, ‘and I’m going to ask for that job. It’s quite an easy one, and I’m quite strong.’
The next morning he went to the bank at half past nine and said, ‘I want that job here. The guard’s job.’
A man gave him a piece of paper. There were a lot of questions on it. ‘Write your answers under the questions,’
the man said to Ted. One of the questions was, ‘Have you ever been in prison?’
Ted smiled happily and wrote ‘No’ under this question.
Then he looked at the next question. It was ‘Why?»
He thought for a long time and then he wrote, ‘Because the police have never caught me.
