A man walks into a bar and tells the bartender, "This is the third time I've been in this bar."
"Really?" says the bartender.
"In 1982, I came in the day before my wedding. I was nervous. I was unsure. In retrospect, I was lacking confidence in myself, in my future."
"Fair enough," says the bartender.
"Over 40 years later, I came back... the day after my wife died. It's amazing how life can change. How every uncertainty can become the past. How the unknown can come to mean... everything."
The bartender doesn't know what to say.
But the man continues. "Those were the two most important days of my life," he says.
The two stand in silence for a moment.
"Well then," says the bartender, "what brings you here today?"
"As fate would have it," the man replies, "I forgot my umbrella."
"In 1982, I came in the day before my wedding. I was nervous. I was unsure. In retrospect, I was lacking confidence in myself, in my future."
"Fair enough," says the bartender.
"Over 40 years later, I came back... the day after my wife died. It's amazing how life can change. How every uncertainty can become the past. How the unknown can come to mean... everything."
The bartender doesn't know what to say.
But the man continues. "Those were the two most important days of my life," he says.
The two stand in silence for a moment.
"Well then," says the bartender, "what brings you here today?"
"As fate would have it," the man replies, "I forgot my umbrella."
It's a change-of-expectations joke. The first two reasons the guy had for coming into the bar were momentous, life-changing reasons. He was about to get married! His wife had just died. So we expect the third time to also be at some momentous time in his life. Coming back because he forgot his umbrella is a reasonable reason to come back, but is unexpected given the reasons he came in before.
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