A man has an urgent need to get a potato clock.
He was bewildered at first, but he wanted to make his new boss happy, so he went to the local clock shop and asked, “Do you happen to have a potato clock?”
To which the clerk said he didn’t, and told him to try the hardware store. So the man walked to the hardware store and explained to the shopkeeper that he really needed a potato clock, but unfortunately, they didn’t have one. The shopkeeper asks, “Why on earth do you need a potato clock?”
To which the man replies, “Well, you see, I’ve just gotten a new job and my boss says that I really need to get up at eight o’clock.”
Explanation: The man’s boss told him to “get up at eight o’clock.” Mishearing it as “get a potato clock,” he frantically searches shops for one. The humor comes from his literal interpretation of a common phrase, turning a simple wake-up instruction into a ridiculous quest for a non-existent gadget.
