Two men are drinking at a bar at the top of the Empire State
Building when the first man turns to the other and says, “You
know, last week I discovered that if you jump from the top of
this building, by the time you fall to the 10th floor, the winds
around the building are so intense that they carry you around the
building and back into the 10th floor window.”
The bartender just shakes his head in disapproval while wiping
the bar.
The second guy says, “What are you a nut? There is no way that
could happen.”
“No, it’s true,” said the first man, let me prove it to you." He
gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony, and plummets to the
street below. When he passes the 10th floor, the high wind whips
him around the building and back into the window, and he takes
the elevator back up to the bar.
He meets the second man, who looks quite astonished. “You know, I
saw that with my own eyes, but I still don’t believe it. That
must have been a one time fluke.”
“No, I’ll prove it again,” says the first man as he jumps. Again
just as he is hurling toward the street, the 10th floor wind
gently carries him around the building and into the window.
Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker to try it. “Well, what
the hey,” the second guy says, “It works, I’ll try it!” He jumps
over the balcony plunges downward, passes the 11th, 10th, 9th,
8th floors …and hits the sidewalk with a ‘splat.’
Back upstairs the bartender turns to the other drinker, saying
“You know, Superman, sometimes you can be a real jerk when you’re
drunk.”