role reversal

[johno]

A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before
the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet
behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the
men now walked several yards behind their wives.

She approached one of the women for an explanation. "This is marvelous,"
said the journalist. "What enabled women here to achieve this reversal of
roles?"
Replied the Kuwaiti woman: "Land mines."

[johno]

A man was walking on the sidewalk and noticed up ahead that Little Johnny
was wearing a red fireman's hat and sitting in a red wagon. It appeared that
the wagon was being pulled slowly by a large Labrador Retriever. When he got
closer to the lad, he noticed that Johnny had a rope tied around the dog's
testicles, which probably accounted for why the dog was walking so gingerly.
Smiling, he spoke to the little boy, "That's really a nice fire engine you
have there son. But I'll bet the dog would pull you faster if you tied that
rope around his neck."
"Yeah," Johnny replied, "But then I wouldn't have a siren."