A friend of mine had an interview to be a barista at this coffee place. He actually breezed through most of the interview process fairly well and established a real good report with the interviewer. However, towards the end of the interview the interviewer began describing how he'll be serving a wide variety of customers, many of whom may be irritated, anxious, etc, and that part of the job requires him interacting with customers and trying to make them feel good. So, he should be able to tell jokes. So the interviewer asked if he could share a joke. Caught completely off guard, my friend went through his memory bank and could only come up with two. It was between a dead baby joke and "the Hellen Keller" joke. So, AT LEAST knowing that the dead baby joke is never appropriate, he decided to go with the other one:
J: "Why can't Hellen Keller drive?"
Interviewer: *smiling, chuckling a bit and curious* "I don't know, why?"
J: "Because she's a woman!"
That's when the interview ended. The next day, my friend got a call telling him he did not get the job. A week later, he received another call, telling him he still didn't have the job.
Guess the joke didn't fly too well.