Two boys came home for dinner late, and their mother asked, "Where have you boys been?" One of them replied with, "We were all over the neighborhood, we're mailmen now." Their snobby teen sister said, "Well, you're not real mailmen, real mailmen use real letters." Then one of the boys said, "Actually, we used real letters, we found a whole box of them under your bed."
The Pretend Mailmen
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The humor comes from the unexpected twist. The boys aren't actually mailmen but rather are playing pretend. The sister tries to one-up them by pointing out the realness of mailmen but gets outsmarted when the boys reveal they used her letters, making her the unexpected victim of their game.