Cowboy

A modern day cowboy has spent many days crossing the desert without water.

His horse has already died of thirst. He's crawling through the sands, certain that he has breathed his last.

All of a sudden, he sees an object sticking out of the sand several yards ahead of him.

He crawls to the object, pulls it out of the sand and discovers what looks to be an old brief case. He opens it and out pops a genie. But this is no ordinary genie. She is wearing an Internal Revenue Service ID badge and a dull gray dress. There's a calculator in her pocketbook. She has a pencil tucked behind one ear.

"Well, cowboy," says the genie... "You know how this works. You have three wishes". "I'm not falling for this", says the cowboy. "I'm not going to trust an IRS auditor". "What do you have to lose? You've got no transportation and it looks like you're a goner anyway!"

The cowboy thinks about it for a minute and decides that the genie is right.

"OK, I wish I were in a lush oasis with plenty of food and drink."

***POOF*** The cowboy finds himself in the most beautiful oasis he has ever seen. And he is surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies. "OK, cowpoke, what's your second wish."

"My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams."

***POOF*** He finds himself surrounded by treasure chests filled with rare gold coins and precious gems.

"OK, cowpuncher, you have just one more wish. Better make it a good one!" After thinking for a few minutes, he says.... "I wish that no matter where I go, beautiful women will want and need me."

***POOF*** He is turned into a tampon.

The moral of the story: If the government offers you anything there's going to be a string attached.