What a neat idea! Maybe I'll give it a go...
...after all, this forum is at its best when some truly goofy, bizarre and downright irreverent threads like this are running rampant! 😉 So let me throw
my hat in the ring here, since "punny" humor is one of my specialties:
An elderly man who had been keeping a multi-generational family-run gas station in the family despite the hard economic times was runnning the station with his young adult son one day when he just shook his head and sighed, bemoaning his recent less-than-profitable fortune. "It's just so hard to get folks to buy gas these days, son," the proprietor admitted, much to his son's disbelief as the younger man watched a cavalcade of vehicles pull into the parking lot near the pumps. "But look, Dad!" said the offspring optimistically, "here come lots of potential customers! Business will be just fine after all!"
But the man's father still just shook his head, watching as the first wave of the multitude of vehicles produced lifeguards, theme park ticket takers, surfers and swimming instructors, a few of which fueled up their vehicles, but most of whom just gazed at the gas prices and drove away. Disappointed at this but ever hopeful, the young man jumped up and down as car after car from the next group filled up, a large group of olive growers and pickers gassing up their automobiles, up until the very last one, disgusted at the cost, also sped away.
Dumbfounded, the son looked at his father, sputtering, "B-but, but...I don't understand, Dad! So many cars came in, and I thought we'd do a lot better business than we did! What happened?"
Still sadly shaking his head and staring off into the distant horizon, the father merely scratched his hairy chin and said, "Well, son, it's like they always say...
...you can fuel summer people some of the time, but you can't fuel olive people all of the time." :huh
