{"id":4350,"date":"2025-06-02T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:33:46","slug":"joke-of-the-day-an-old-man-calls-his-son-with-sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"JOKE OF THE DAY: An old man calls his son with sad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-main-thumbnail size-main-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-stories.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/06122817\/haha1-664x350.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-stories.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/06122817\/haha1-664x350.jpg 664w, https:\/\/cdn-stories.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/06122817\/haha1-400x210.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn-stories.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/06122817\/haha1-412x216.jpg 412w, https:\/\/cdn-stories.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/06122817\/haha1.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"170\"><strong data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"170\">Had to share this! If it made you laugh, pass it on\u2014because laughter really <em data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"149\">is<\/em> the best medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"190\"><strong data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"190\">Christmas Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"268\">The day before Christmas Eve, a man in Minneapolis calls his son in Chicago:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"336\">\u201cWe\u2019re getting divorced,\u201d he says. \u201c45 years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"423\">Shocked, the son yells, \u201cWhat?!\u201d<br data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"373\" \/>\u201cCall your sister,\u201d the dad replies, and hangs up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"485\">The son calls his sister\u2014she\u2019s furious. She calls their dad:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"535\">\u201cDon\u2019t do anything! We\u2019re flying home tomorrow!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"647\">The old man hangs up, turns to his wife, and grins:<br data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"591\" \/>\u201cThey\u2019re coming for Christmas\u2014and paying their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"683\">\u2605 Pass it on\u2014make someone smile! \u2605<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"715\"><strong data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"715\">BONUS: Montana Viagra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"792\">An elderly woman asks her doctor how to help her husband&#8217;s low sex drive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"871\">\u201cTry Viagra,\u201d the doctor says.<br data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"827\" \/>\u201cHe won\u2019t even take aspirin!\u201d she replies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"910\">\u201cSlip it in his coffee,\u201d he suggests.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1175\">A week later she calls back:<br data-start=\"940\" data-end=\"943\" \/>\u201cDisaster! He jumped up, eyes blazing, swept the table clean, ripped my clothes off, and took me right there!\u201d<br data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1056\" \/>\u201cSounds amazing\u2014what\u2019s the problem?\u201d<br data-start=\"1092\" data-end=\"1095\" \/>\u201cOh, it was the best in 25 years\u2026<br data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1131\" \/>\u2026but I can never go back to that Starbucks!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had to share this! If it made you laugh, pass it on\u2014because laughter really is the best medicine. Christmas Call The day before Christmas Eve, a man in Minneapolis calls his son in Chicago: \u201cWe\u2019re getting divorced,\u201d he says. \u201c45 years of misery is enough.\u201d Shocked, the son yells, \u201cWhat?!\u201d\u201cCall your sister,\u201d the dad replies,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4350\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;JOKE OF THE DAY: An old man calls his son with sad news&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}