Misunderstanding with an Officer

Officer sees a man and he is seeing he is having trouble walking, so he asked him, "Sir, are you drunk?" The man responds, "No, sir, I'm not drunk." So the officer asks, "How high are you?" And the man responds, "No sir, it's 'Hi, how are you?'"

Explanation

Experiment

The joke plays on the double meaning of the phrase "how high are you". The officer uses it to ask if the man is under the influence of drugs, while the man interprets it as a casual greeting. It's a classic misunderstanding that uses wordplay for humor.