One night, Mulla Nasrudin’s father noticed a light in his barn. He went to see what it was all about and he found Nasrudin with a lantern, all dressed up. “What are you doing all dressed up and with that lantern?” asked his father. “I am going to call on my girlfriend, Dad,” said Nasrudin. “I have got to go through the woods and it is dark.”
“When I was your age calling on my wife for the first time,” said the father, “I went through the woods without a lantern.”
“I know,” said Nasrudin, “but look what you got, Dad!”