My four year old loves to tell jokes. Unfortunately, she’s limited to what she hears from the handful of kids shows and things she ocassionally hears from friends and family. Her favorite at the moment is, “How do ducks learn to fly?” (They just wing it.) She tries to vary the joke, but is no comedienne yet. “How do ducks learn to poop?” (They just poop it.)

I decided to give her a new one, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” (She’s too young for most of the cultural punchlines, so we stuck with “to get to the other side.”)

Without missing a beat, she tried to vary this classic by asking, “Why did the monkey cross the road?” I thought for a minute before deciding to guess, “Because there were bananas on the other side?”

“Nope! He was STAPLED TO THE CHICKEN!”

I always felt I’d never use CPR in my life, but God help me if I didn’t think I was going to have to test my skills on my wife in that moment. If you can offer jokes my four year old will appreciate, please feel free to share. She doesn’t get most of my material.