Boring Blind Date

After being with her all evening, I could not take another minute with my blind date. Earlier, I had secretly arranged with a friend to call me on phone telling me something bad that just happened so that I would have an excuse to run. When I returned to the table, I lowered my eyes, put on a grim expression and said, ''I just received a bad news, Cynthia. My great grandfather just died.''

''Wow, thank God!'' My date replied, ''Because if your own had not died, mine would have had to die.''