A British chap went to a pet shop looking for an unusual pet, he
was bored with the normal cats and dogs and even the tortoise that
tells jokes. (Talk about a hard customer to please!) He asked the
pet shop owner what strange and unusual pets he had. “Well,” said
the pet shop owner “I have this Kangaroo that will clean the house
for you.”

“No,” he replied, “My friend has one of those.”

So the shop owner went out the back and came back in with a
Centipede. The man looked at it and said “what’s so special about
that?” The shop owner then told the centipede to go out the back and
cook a big fried breakfast with everything on it. The centipede
replied, “right away guv’ner!” So off to the kitchen the centipede
went, and came back with this huge breakfast. The man was so
impressed he bought the centipede.

The next day he thought he would try out his new toy. He called
the centipede and said to him “I want you to go to the shops buy me a
Paper and some milk, come back and cook me a breakfast, before I get
out of the shower.” “O.K. guv!” came the reply and off the
centipede went. Half an hour later the man comes downstairs, and
the centipede is still there. “I thought I told you to go to the
shop!” the man said.

“I am!” the centipede replied. “…I’m just putting my boots on.”