It might be situational

But we have the funniest receptionist at our company, she really does epitomise every blonde joke around. She is however quite witty and today's situation brought it out in her.

The building that we work in is a serviced building that houses many small companies with shared air conditioning. One of the empty offices (all locked up with nobody in it) sprung a pretty serious leak in the ceiling which of course skipped everyone's notice, until that is the water started to pore through the ceiling of one of the adjacent (occupied offices). When it was opened up, several buckets (or dustbins) were placed under the deluge to try and minimise the damage while they waited for the handyman to arrive.

When we noticed that the buckets were about to overflow we went down to reception to let them know. M (the more senior of the receptionists) told Ms Blondie to upstairs and change the buckets around. As she was walking up the stairs, M jokingly asked her if she had her wellies ready and the RO added that she should probably take an umbrella along too. Ms. Blonde turned and with perfect comedy timing (aided by the look of terror on her face) said, 'But I can't swim!'. This really cracked me up and was made even funnier when we returned to find that she hadn't changed the buckets around because she said that the bucket was too full and she couldn't move it without the water overflowing. Instead she had left it overflow as this was clearly the better option!

Genius, you just can't make this stuff up!

VP