For the next hour, both husband and wife attempted to retract the peanut from the poor chaps ear and eventually decided on giving up and making their way down to the hospital.

Just as the couple was about to leave via the front door, their daughter arrived with her new boyfriend. The boyfriend happened to remark that he was a medical student and could remove the peanut from his girlfriends dad's ear. The boyfriend put two of his fingers in the unlucky bloke's ear and asked him to blow... and has luck would have it, the peanut flew out of the ear.

The husband and wife were just discussing their recent piece of luck as their daughter and boyfriend went through to the kitchen to make some tea.

"What do you think he'll be when he graduates, a surgeon or GP?" questioned the wife.

"By the smell of his fingers, our son-in-law!", exclaimed the husband with a grin.