On this Friday of Spirit Week, we bring you one of Jim’s many jokes collected in his travels.

–by Jim Wang

Franz Wilhelm was a short and ugly painter. When someone laughed at him, he would be outraged. Once, he was sitting in a restaurant, and a beautiful woman came in the restaurant and sat next to Franz. Meanwhile, she looked at Franz laughing. Franz’s face flushed like a red door, but he said nothing and instead took out his sketchbook and sketched while gazing at the woman’s eyes. The woman felt uncomfortable while Franz was sketching her, so she walked toward Franz and said, “Sir, I don’t allow you to draw me.”

“Oh, is this a woman?”

Franz handed the sketchbook to her, and the woman apologized to Franz. Franz was sketching a goose in his book. It seemed she didn’t know that goose means stupid woman in German.