A man has spent many days crossing the desert without
water.
His camel dies of thirst.
He's crawling through the sands, certain that he has
breathed his last, when 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.
He is wearing an Inland Revenue ID badge and dull grey
suit.
There's a calculator in his pocket. He has a pencil tucked
behind one ear.
"Well, kid," says the genie. "You know how it works. You
have three wishes."
"I'm not falling for this." says the man. "I'm not going
to trust a person from the IR"
"What do you have to lose? You've got no transportation,
and it looks like you're a goner anyway!"
The man thinks about this for a minute, and decides that
the genie is right.
"OK, I wish I were in a lush oasis with plentiful food and
drink."
***POOF***
The man finds himself in the most beautiful oasis he has
ever seen, and he is surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of
delicacies.
"Ok, kid, what's your second wish." "My second wish is
that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams."
***POOF***
The man finds himself surrounded by treasure chests filled
with rare gold coins and precious gems.
"OK, kid, you have just one more wish. Better make it a
good one!"
After thinking for a few minutes, the man 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 tax man offers you anything, there's going to be a
string attached.
