Max was talking to Louie. “Did you know that I’m one of 18 children?”

Louie said, “No, I didn’t. Why do you think your parents had so many children?”

Max replies, “The problem was that my mum was hard of hearing. When mum and dad went to bed each night, dad would ask, “Do you want to go to sleep, or what?”

And mum would say, “What?”