As retold by Bruce Lowitt

An old Jewish man on a bus sits down next to a younger man with an odd-looking shirt collar. Having never seen a priest before, he asks, "Excuse me, but why do you have your shirt collar on backwards?"

The priest, taken aback at a question he's never been asked before, recovers his composure and says, "I wear this collar because I am a Father."

"But I'm a father, too," the Jew says. "Four sons, three daughters and I don't know how many grandchildren by now. But I don't wear my collar on backwards."

The exasperated priest says, "I am the father for hundreds and hundreds of people."

The Jewish man thinks for a while, gets up to leave, leans down to the priest and says, "Mister, maybe you should wear your pants on backwards."