Many years ago a man was travelling through the
mountains of Switzerland. Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere
to sleep. He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the
night. The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.
As the story goes, the farmer's daughter came down from upstairs and asked her
father, "Who is that man going into the barn?"
"That's some fellow travelling through," said the farmer. "He needs a place to
stay for the night, so I said he could sleep in the barn."
The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry." So she prepared him a plate of food
and took it out to the barn.
About an hour later, the daughter returned. Her clothing
dishevelled and straw in her hair. Straight up to bed she went.
The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps the man
was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the barn, and she
too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned
incorrectly and her hair all messed up. She also headed straight to bed.
The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on his
journey, waving to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke and learned
that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears. "How could he leave without
even saying goodbye," she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!"
"What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking for the
man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm
going to get you! You had sex with my daughter!"
The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his
mouth, and yelled out, "LAIDTHEOLADEETOO."