This variant is another original by Irv Baker [irvingb@sonic.net].

A traveling salesman was driving through the marshy Louisiana countryside one night when he missed a turn and found himself in a ditch. There was nothing around but he saw a light at the end of a boardwalk so that’s where he went. The door was answered by a man who said that there was not much they could do at night but the salesman could stay at the house and … Read the rest...