Before their wedding, the two IT professionals had already built a shared life that ran like a perfectly configured cloud environment: synchronized calendars, version-controlled grocery lists, and zero-downtime date nights. When they finally tied the knot, relatives were thrilled, confident this highly efficient duo would scale their family soon enough.
At Thanksgiving, their family asks them, “When are you going to have children?”
The couple replied, “Don’t worry, we are working on it. ;)”
Next Thanksgiving, the couple still doesn’t have children, and their family asks, “Is there a problem? I thought you were planning to have children?”
The couple said, “Ticket closed; unable to reproduce.”
Explanation: This joke humorously maps family expectations about children to IT workflows. The couple treats having kids like a technical project, using phrases such as “working on it” and finally “ticket closed; unable to reproduce,” echoing a software bug report. The punchline plays on “reproduce” meaning both procreate and replicate in computing.
