Smart Shipwreck Joke

 

Sam was a simple custodian who worked at a famous college. On his vacation he took a cruise. On the cruise he saw two professors on board who worked at his college. Both men sneered at him like he was stupid. 

The cruise ship ran into a storm and started to sink. Sam managed to get onto a life boat with the two professors and make it to an island. "We're famous and brilliant. Surely someone will come look for us," the two professors exclaimed and then rolled their eyes at Sam. "But certainly not...him."

Sam spotted three bottles washed up on the beach. Each bottle had a piece of paper and a pencil. "Yes, we'll write our names and put them into the bottles and throw them out to sea. Whoever finds the bottles will recognize our names and know how famous we are and send help immediately!" the two professors cheered. Then they rolled their eyes at Sam. "But not him. He doesn't have the brains to count past two."

Sam shrugged his shoulders and went to the other side of the island. He wrote something on the piece of paper he had, put the paper into the bottle and tossed it into the waves. The next day a rescue boat showed up on his side of the island and rescued him. Years later the two professors were recused. When they got back to their college they saw Sam smiling and whistling as he worked. "How did you get rescued!" they demanded.

"I wrote something and put in that bottle I had," Sam answered.

"What could a dummy like you write that was more important than what we wrote!" the two professors hollered.

"Oh, just the coordinates to the island," Sam answered with a smile and walked away.