My father, ER Hayes, was a great teller of jokes. He had his favorites, of course, repeated as needed to entertain his close associates.
Here’s one, first of a series on this website.
A farmer was driving his hogs to market. There were two ways to cross the local river, a ford, quite close to his farm, and a bridge, much further and requiring a longer trip.
One of his neighbors asked “Why don’t you take your hogs across the ford? It would save you some time.”
The farmer responded “What’s time to a hog?”