The Mystery of the Outhouse
by Robert L. Funk, Greenwich, Ohio
    
   Two couples that were friends of mine headed south for the winter. Going through Tennessee, they pulled into a small gas station to gas up and get a bottle of pop. As they were drinking their pop, a car pulled up with a woman and a man in it. The man asked the attendant if he had a toilet. The attendant said: "Out back."

   And so the man went back there. His wife, however, said: "That vine covered outhouse sure looks snaky back there!"  

  About this time, there was a scream, and the man came running out of the outhouse with his pants down. The men from the station bent him over (to the embarrassment of the women) to check him out. They saw two red and purple marks on his buttocks, but they told him to pull up his pants, as the skin was not broken. 

   Then the men got sticks and went out to kill a snake. The attendant slowly checked the outhouse out. He raised the seat... and there... sat a rooster and red hen on a clutch of eggs!

   Well, they accused the stranger of being "hen pecked." A lot of laughter and back slapping over this!