Starting to bug me...
A British chap went to a pet shop looking for an unusual pet, he was bored with the normal cats and dogs and even the tortoise that tells jokes. (Talk about a hard customer to please!) He asked the pet shop owner what strange and unusual pets he had.
"Well," said the pet shop owner "I have this Kangaroo that will clean the house for you."
"No," he replied, "My friend has one of those."
So the shop owner went out the back and came back in with a Centipede. The man looked at it and said "what's so special about that?" The shop owner then told the centipede to go out the back and cook a big fried breakfast with everything on it. The centipede replied, "right away guv'ner!" So off to the kitchen the centipede went, and came back with this huge breakfast. The man was so impressed he bought the centipede.
The next day he thought he would try out his new toy. He called the centipede and said to him "I want you to go to the shops buy me a Paper and some milk, come back and cook me a breakfast, before I get out of the shower."
"O.K. guv!" came the reply and off the centipede went. Half an hour later the man comes downstairs, and the centipede is still there. "I thought I told you to go to the shop!" the man said.
"I am!" the centipede replied. "...I'm just putting my boots on."
Originally published November 14, 2002.
