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[deansangel918]

Who: deansangel918
What: Door-to-door Joke Salesman
When: Anytime
Where: The residential section.
Warnings: Really bad jokes?

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[missthewoman]

[At the man saying 'knock knock' right after she'd already answered the door, Irene raises an eyebrow curiously. What is this? After a long pause she smiles.]

Macbeth, is it?
[She makes her voice a bit deeper] 'Who's there, i' th' name of Beelzebub?'

[deansangel918]

[Her response distracts him from his script.]

You swear by the name of a demon?

Way to get off on the right foot, eh. XD

[missthewoman]

[She blinks at how seriously he seems to take that, and that he does not reply with the next line of the play.]

Apologies, good sir. No, I certainly do not. But with such a strange greeting, the first thing I thought of was the quote from Macbeth.
I take it you have not read it.

Nicely done. XD

[deansangel918]

Oh, Shakespeare. [Now he nods in recognition.] I attended a performance of Macbeth once.

[Possibly while Shakespeare was alive, but let's not get into that.]

My apologies. I take it you're not familiar with a form of humor known as a knock knock joke?

Only the best for you! ♥

[missthewoman]

[Oh, good. She's pleased that he knows it after all.]

[At his question she tilts her head as she considers for a moment.]

'Knock knock joke'? ...Ah. [How very proletarian.] I know of them. Was that what you meant by only saying 'knock knock' when I answered the door?

[deansangel918]

Yes. [There's obvious exasperation in his tone of voice.]

My job for the month requires me to go door to door and tell jokes.

[And since they've already deviated from his script, he holds out a flyer advertising 'Yo Momma Jokes'.]

[missthewoman]

Is that so? [She takes the flyer, but doesn't look at it.] A shame that it is a job that you are so clearly unhappy with.

[deansangel918]

It wasn't my choice. When I tried to sign up for a job I ended up with this one instead.

[missthewoman]

I hear that happens often. Would you take a permanent job, if you came across a suitable one?

[She is so thankful for hers, hearing about these things happening.]

[deansangel918]

[He thinks about that for a moment.]

I'm not sure. I enjoy having a choice about the things I do. I suppose it would depend on the job.

[missthewoman]

And what job would it be to hold you, dear?

[deansangel918]

[This answer he's more certain about.]

Something that helps people.

[missthewoman]

[She chuckles lowly at that. Sounds rather like another man she knows.]

That is quite a broad field! Why, even this job could fall in with that description.

[deansangel918]

... I fail to see how.

[missthewoman]

[And that sounded rather like another man she knows.]

Helping people to smile and laugh is a lovely thing. Even a short amusement can lighten your spirit for the whole day. Granted, a knock-knock joke is only about suitable for making children laugh, but still.
Do you see?

[deansangel918]

I see.

Unfortunately very few people have laughed after I told the joke.