NOT WORTH IT

What’s so funny about this? This is a simple pun based on the word “withdraw” a verb meaning to pull out or pull back. In a military context it means retreat, as in “the enemy being too overwhelming and if we don’t withdraw or get out of here we’ll all be fried!”. Now, perhaps that’s the context I should have used just to illustrate the different meanings. But I didn’t. I stuck to the other meaning and context, that is, pulling out or withdrawing money from a bank. Having a girlfriend as a bank teller could be convenient, depending on how honest or dishonest her nature is. But “withdraw” or the participial form “withdrawn” can also have a more abstract psychological meaning, and that is to disengage, pull back, physically, mentally, or emotionally from a relationship, or any combination of these three. The woman in the joke seems to have taken all her money out of her bank. Perhaps the more she withdrew from the bank, the more she withdrew from the relationship. In the first example “w