An applicant was filling out a job application. When he came to the question, “Have you ever been arrested?” he wrote, “No.”

The next question, intended for people who had answered in the affirmative to the previous question, was “Why?”

The applicant answered it anyway: “Never got caught.”

Vocabulary Help

  • applicant – candidato
  • fill out – preencher
  • Have you ever been arrested? – Você já foi preso?
  • job application – ficha de emprego
  • never got caught – nunca me pegaram
  • next – próxima
  • people – pessoas
  • write (write, wrote, written) – escrever