When it comes to famous joke openings, they often involve someone walking into a bar. It could be a nun walking into a bar or perhaps 3 strangers walking into a bar but in any case, once you hear the joke get started, you know you are going to be laughing before it is over. Perhaps that is why we love this joke so much. It starts out rather simply, with a cowboy walking into a bar. It sounds like any other joke you have heard but by the time you are finished, you realize it was a punchline that needed to be told.
A cowboy rides his horse into a small town.
His throat is parched, so he ties his horse to a pole next to a bar and goes in for a drink. He comes out a few minutes later, and someone already stole his horse.
The people of the town are looking to see his reaction, they aren’t even discreet about it.
He looks around at everyone and says loud and clear: “I will walk back into the bar to get myself another drink, and if I don’t see my horse right in front of the bar, I will have to do what I did in Texas a year ago after someone stole my horse.
And trust me, I didn’t like what I had to do in Texas a year ago.”
After his confident speech, the man walked back into the bar. The townsfolk looked at each other in fear and got the horse back.
The cowboy finished his second drink and walked out of the bar, saddled the horse, but just before he left the bartender walked up to him and asked. “Hey, cowboy, we know that we got you your horse back, but do you mind telling us what you had to do a year ago in Texas?”
The cowboy looked at him with an iron gaze and responded: “I had to walk home.”
