Ted worked in a factory, but he was not very good, and he lost his job one day. His wife looked in the newspaper and said, “One of the banks wants a guard.”
　　“I’m going to go there tomorrow,” Ted said, “and I’m going to ask for that job. It’s quite an easy one, and I’m quite strong.”
　　The next morning he went to the bank at half past nine and said, “I want that job here. The guard’s job.”
　　A man gave him a piece of paper. There were a lot of questions on it. “Write your answers under the questions,” the man said to Ted.
　　One of the questions was, “Have you ever been in prison?”
　　Ted smiled happily and wrote “No” under this question.
　　Then he looked at the next question. It was “Why?”
　　He thought for a long time and then he wrote, “Because the police have never caught me.”
　　
　　特德在一家工厂工作。因为干得不出色，所以他失业了。他的妻子在报纸上查找了一番，然后对他说：“有家银行需要一名保安。”
　　“我明天就去那儿，”特德说，“我去申请这份工作。这个活儿很简单，再说我身强力壮。”
　　第二天上午9点半的时候，他到了那家银行。他说：“我想申请这儿的那份工作，就是那份做保安的工作。”
　　一个人递给他一张纸，纸上有很多问题。“将答案写在问题的下面，”那人对特德说。
　　其中的一个问题是：“你进过监狱吗？”
　　特德高兴地笑了，他随即在问题下写了“没有”二字。
　　接着他看到了下一个问题，这个问题是：“为什么？”
　　他想了很久，然后写道：“因为警察从未逮住过我。”