When I was waiting for the bus earlier a guy came running to the bus stop, and asked me if the bus had gone. People really don’t use their brains anymore, do they?

If I had been in his situation, I would have been able to draw the conclusion that I hadn’t missed the bus based on a few facts like:

• there’s a guy standing at the bus stop
• there’s only one line trafficking that bus stop, so that guy must be waiting for the same bus
• the guy doesn’t have the annoyed look of someone who’s just realized he has to wait 20 minutes for the next bus.

I wanted to tell him that “yeah, the bus just went by, but I stayed here to tell you that you missed it”, but the risk of having to explain that it was a joke and ending up giving him a definition of the concept of humor seemed to great.