No explanation – just the observation that I was reading about the new Little Mermaid movie, with the scandal of a non-white playing a mythical creature, right before seeing this, so thought . . . oh, a merman . . .
If they drive to the diner every week, why doesn’t the tail just meet them there?
If the destination is known, you couldn’t shake the tail if you wanted to…
I think the joke is supposed to be that the man insists on driving (as men do), even if he’s not a very good driver, as his nagging wife points out (as women do) in a surrealistic way (you can’t even shake a tail!), but as I point out above, this surrealistic take doesn’t work… or I guess the author thinks it makes it more surrealistic?
I think it’s kind of funny. There’s a twist at the end. You think that he’s an older man who can no longer safely drive. But it’s turns out instead that he’s someone under surveillance (a mob boss, perhaps), and the issue is his difficulty in avoiding that surveillance. Of course, if he’s going to the diner every week, it may be easier for his tail to follow him.
Jokes with couples arguing about the right way to drive are very old. Here’s a classic example by H.T. Webster (click on the link, the image will not embed here).
Here’s a classic item about driving by H.T. Webster:
The difficulty of shaking a tail varies highly, depending largely on who’s doing the tailing. A known endpoint doesn’t have anything to do with it. If you’re being tailed, it’s because they want to know all the places you go and every person you meet up with… skipping to the known endpoint still leaves a gap. You might have disposed of the body, passed off the microfilm, or met up with the fugitive.
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No explanation – just the observation that I was reading about the new Little Mermaid movie, with the scandal of a non-white playing a mythical creature, right before seeing this, so thought . . . oh, a merman . . .
If they drive to the diner every week, why doesn’t the tail just meet them there?
If the destination is known, you couldn’t shake the tail if you wanted to…
I think the joke is supposed to be that the man insists on driving (as men do), even if he’s not a very good driver, as his nagging wife points out (as women do) in a surrealistic way (you can’t even shake a tail!), but as I point out above, this surrealistic take doesn’t work… or I guess the author thinks it makes it more surrealistic?
I think it’s kind of funny. There’s a twist at the end. You think that he’s an older man who can no longer safely drive. But it’s turns out instead that he’s someone under surveillance (a mob boss, perhaps), and the issue is his difficulty in avoiding that surveillance. Of course, if he’s going to the diner every week, it may be easier for his tail to follow him.
Jokes with couples arguing about the right way to drive are very old. Here’s a classic example by H.T. Webster (click on the link, the image will not embed here).
Here’s a classic item about driving by H.T. Webster:
The difficulty of shaking a tail varies highly, depending largely on who’s doing the tailing. A known endpoint doesn’t have anything to do with it. If you’re being tailed, it’s because they want to know all the places you go and every person you meet up with… skipping to the known endpoint still leaves a gap. You might have disposed of the body, passed off the microfilm, or met up with the fugitive.