A man goes on vacation while a friend takes care of his house and feeds the cat. Each day the man calls to check in and is told everything is fine. However, on the fifth day, he calls and his friend tells him the cat got out of the house, was hit by a car and is dead.
The man is horrified. "Why did you tell me about it that way?! Couldn't you have broken it to me easier? I still have three days left on vacation, so you could have worked me up to it each day. Start by telling me the cat is on the roof. Then tell me it's in a tree. Finally, work up to telling me about getting hit by the car."
The friend apologized and promised to be less abrupt in the future.
At that point, the man asked his friend if there was anything else he should know.
"Well," the friend replied. "Your mother is on the roof....."
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