The English language is truly the hardest language in the world to learn. Many Americans just don’t realize how different English is from other languages. For instance, we use many of the same words to mean different things. This sentence is a perfect example of one that drives non-English speakers nuts, ” I made a C on my test, so now I can’t go see the sea with my friends.” You probably understood that, right? But, for many non-English speakers, sentences such as that leave their heads spinning. And even native speakers can get a little mixed up from time to time, like the man in this fictional joke who becomes embarrassed after a neighbor passes by coating him doing something hilarious in his barn.
Cletus is passing by Billy Bob’s hay barn one day when, through a gap in the door, he sees Billy Bob doing a slow and sensual striptease in front of an old John Deere tractor.
He performs a slow pirouette, and gently slides off first the right strap of his overalls, followed by the left. He then hunches his shoulders forward and in a classic striptease move, lets his overalls fall down to his hips, revealing a torn and frayed plaid shirt.
Then, grabbing both sides of his shirt, he rips it apart to reveal his oil-stained t-shirt underneath. With a final flourish, he tears the t-shirt from his body and hurls his baseball cap onto a pile of hay. Having seen enough, Cletus rushes in and says, “what the world re ya doing there, Billy Bob?”
“Good grief, Cletus, ya scared the bejeebers out of me, says an obviously embarrassed Billy Bob, but me n’ the wife been havin’ trouble lately in the bedroom d’partment, and the therapist suggested I do something sexy to a tractor.”