Don't Make Me Do It
A cowboy rode
into strange town and stopped at a saloon for a drink. Unfortunately, the locals always
had a habit of picking on strangers. When he finished his drink, he found his horse had
been stolen.
He went into the bar, handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head
without even looking and fired a shot into the ceiling.
“Which one of you sidewinders stole my horse?”
No one answered.
“All right, I'm gonna have another beer, and if my horse ain't back outside by the
time I finish, I'm gonna have to do what I dun in Texas! And I don't like to
have to do what I dun in Texas!”
Some of the locals shifted restlessly. The cowboy, true to his word, had another drink,
walked outside, and his horse had been returned to the post.
He saddled up and started to ride out of town. The bartender wandered out of the bar and
asked,
“Say partner, before you go,
what happened in Texas?”
The cowboy turned back and said,
“I had to
walk home.”