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Swiss mountain guides can get tired answering the same questions.

Once an English tourist was giving his guide an especially hard time with silly questions. They were walking through a mountain valley that was strewn with rocks, and the traveller asked, “How did these rocks get here?” “Sir,” said the guide, “they were brought down by a glacier.”

The tourist peered up the mountain and said, “But I don’t see any glacier.”

“Oh, really?” said the guide. “I guess it has gone back for more rocks.”

Before going to Europe on business, a man drives his Rolls Royce to a downtown NY City bank and goes in to ask for an immediate loan of $5,000. The loan officer, taken aback, requests collateral. “Well, then, here are the keys to my Rolls Royce,” the man says.

The loan officer promptly has the car driven into the bank’s underground parking for safe keeping, and gives him $5,000.

Two weeks later, the man walks through the bank’s doors, and asks to settle up his loan and get his car back.

“Wait sir,” the loan officer says.

“I learned that you are a millionaire. Why in the world would you need to borrow?"

The man smiles. “Where else could I park my Rolls Royce in Manhattan for two weeks and pay only $15.40?”

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