A man was laying new carpeting his living room. After laboriously pulling, stretching, and tacking the carpet, he finally finished, and gratefully sat back to enjoy a cigarette. Reaching into his shirt pocket, however, he found that his cigarettes were gone, and looking toward the center of the room, he saw a bulge the size of a cigarette pack under the new carpeting. He of course had no intention of pulling up the carpet, so instead, he took his hammer, and he pounded the lump flat, so it could not be seen. A few minutes later his wife came into the room and handed him his cigarettes.

"I found them in the kitchen," she told him. "Now if I can just find our pet hamster."