Beckie and Lou decided to take their little son, Sam, on his first visit to the beach. Dressed in his little swimming trunks and with bucket and spade in hand, Sam happily played at the water’s edge as his mother and father spread their picnic blanket. Then suddenly, to his parents’ horror, a huge wave crashed down on Sam and then dragged him far out to sea. As neither Beckie nor Lou could swim, Beckie began to wail and cry, “Dear God, be merciful. Return our son to us!”
Suddenly another huge wave cast Sam back up on the sand at his parents’ feet. Beckie inspected her son, then quickly looked back toward the heavens and said, “He had a hat!”
From Oy! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, by David Minkoff