A truck driver hauling a tractor trailer filled with
computers stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar, he sees a big
sign on the door reading, “Nerds Not Allowed — Enter at
Your Own Risk.”
He enters the bar and sits down. The bartender comes
over to him, sniffs him, says he smells kind of nerdy, and asks him
what he does for a living. The truck driver says he drives a truck,
and the smell is just from the computers he is hauling. The
bartender says okay, truck drivers are not nerds, and serves him a
beer.
As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in with
tape around his glasses, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of
pens and pencils, and a belt at least a foot too long. The
bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the
guy away.
The truck driver asks him why he did that. The
bartender said not to worry, the nerds are overpopulating the
Silicon Valley, and now they are in season.
“You don’t even need a license,” he
said.
So the truck driver finishes his beer, gets back in
his truck, and heads back onto the freeway. Suddenly, he veers to
avoid an accident, and the load shifts. The back door breaks open
and computers spill out all over the freeway. He jumps out and sees
a crowd already forming, grabbing up the computers. They are all
engineers, accountants, and programmers wearing the nerdiest
clothes he has ever seen. He can’t let them steal his whole
load.
Remembering what had happened in the bar, he pulls out
his gun and starts blasting away, felling several of them
instantly.
A highway patrol officer comes zooming up and jumps
out of the car screaming at him to stop.
The truck driver says, “What’s wrong? I
thought nerds were in season.”
“Well, sure, they are” says the patrolman,
“but you can’t bait ‘em.”
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