——– A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco’s Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz. Others watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another. The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail. Finally, they reached the ticket window. “Five tickets, please,” the father said. “Two round trip, three one way.”

UFO — A flying saucer was low on fuel, so it landed near a local gas station. On its side were the letters “UFO.” The gas station attendant was stunned, but his curiosity got the best of him. “Does that stand for Unidentified Flying Object?” he asked. “No,” one of the other-worldly travelers responds. “It stands for ‘Unleaded Fuel Only.’ “