NERDS NOT ALLOWED

This truck driver hauling a tractor-trailer load of computers stops
for a beer. As he approaches the bar he sees a big sign on the door
saying "NERDS NOT ALLOWED-ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!"

He goes in and sits down.

The bartender comes over to him, sniffs, says he smells kind of
nerdy, asks him what he does for a living. The truck driver says he
drives a truck, and the smell is just from the computers he is
hauling. The bartender says OK, truck drivers are not nerds, and
serves him a beer. As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in
with tape around his glasses, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of
pens and pencils, and a belt at least a foot too long. The
bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the
guy away. The truck driver asks him why he did that. The bartender
said not to worry, the nerds are overpopulating the Silicon Valley,
and are in season now. You don't even need a license, he said.

So the truck driver finishes his beer, gets back in his truck, and
heads back onto the freeway. Suddenly he veers to avoid an accident,
and the load shifts. The back door breaks open and computers spill
out all over the freeway. He jumps out and sees a crowd already
forming, grabbing up the computers. They are all engineers,
accountants and programmers wearing the nerdiest clothes he has ever
seen. He can't let them steal his whole load. So remembering what
happened in the bar, he pulls out his gun and starts blasting away,
felling several of them instantly. A highway patrol officer comes
zooming up and jumps out of the car screaming at him to stop.

The truck driver said, "What's wrong? I thought nerds were in
season."

"Well, sure," said the patrolman, "But you can't bait 'em."

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