Sigh Of Relief

There once was an old man who had been everywhere and never found what he had been looking for. So he decided that what he couldn't find, didn't exist, as it couldn't be found; this depressed him greatly and so he stayed in his house from that day forth and never left it at all any longer unless he absolutely had to. One day he was in his local store, buying provisions, when a newcomer to the town asked the clerk, "Who is that old man?" - "Oh," said the clerk, "That's the man who's been everywhere." "Wow," said the newcomer, "That's interesting ..."

The newcomer went over to the old man and said, "I hear you've been everywhere?" The old man snarled and said, "Yeah, that's right. Everywhere." The newcomer smiled and said, "And where is that?"

The old man tried to speak, but couldn't get any words out; in the end he started to laugh, laugh so hard he had to cough. When he was finished, he shook hands with the newcomer and they left together, to become firm friends.