The third man sat quietly with a grin on his face.
“What did you bring?” the others finally asked.
Without saying a word, he reached into his bag and pulled out a family-sized box of tampons.
The first two convicts stared at him.
One blinked.
The other scratched his head.
“…Tampons?”
The third man nodded confidently.
“Yep.”
The first convict laughed.
“What are you going to do with those?”
The second added, “You don’t even know what they’re for, do you?”
The third convict smiled even wider.
“I sure do.”
He pointed to the side of the box and began reading the instructions aloud:
“With these, you can swim, ride a horse, play tennis, go hiking, run, dance, exercise, and enjoy all your favorite activities.”
He folded the box shut and shrugged.
“So if I can do all that with one little tampon…”
“…just imagine what I can do with the whole box!”
The bus driver burst out laughing so hard he had to pull over.
Even the prison guards couldn’t keep a straight face.
One of them wiped tears from his eyes and said,
“Son… I think you misunderstood the advertisement.”
The convict looked genuinely confused.
“It says it right here!”
The guard chuckled.
“That’s advertising. It doesn’t mean the tampon gives you those abilities.”
The convict looked down at the box, then back at everyone.
“So you’re telling me…”
“…I’ve been carrying around the world’s most disappointing survival kit?”
By then, the entire bus was laughing.
Even the first convict admitted,
“You know what? Forget the cards.”
“I want to spend my sentence sitting next to him.”