okay, I'm going to write this out the way I remember my cousin telling it 10 years ago.
Three brothers are on a road trip across the country to visit their sick mother. Halfway there their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in front of a big red farmhouse.
The three brothers all check their cell phones but none of them have service, so they walk up to the house. The first brother knocks on the door, and an old woman in a red dress answers it.
"Hello m'am, we were travelling cross-country to visit our sick mother and our car just broke down, could we use your phone?"
"of course, I'll call Joe, he owns the garage down the road, come on in."
So the woman lets the men into her home. As they enter they notice that everything in the house is red: The walls, the ceiling, the furniture, everything.
The old woman comes back from the phone.
"I'm sorry, Joe won't be able to get here until tomorrow, you'll just have to stay here. I can fix you boys up with your own rooms since my kids have moved out long ago."
So the woman directs the men to their rooms. She says to the first man "Your room is the first door on the left once you get upstairs."
so the first man walks up the red staircase, down the red hallway, and opens the first red door on the left, and entered his room which was just as red as the rest of the house.
The old woman says to the second man "Your room is the second door on the left once you get upstairs."
so the second man walks up the red staircase, down the red hallway, and opens the second red door on the left, and entered his room which was just as red as the rest of the house.
The old woman says to the last man "Your room is the first door on the right once you get upstairs."
so the third man walks up the red staircase, down the red hallway, and opens the first red door on the right, and entered his room which was just as red as the rest of the house.
The next morning, the three men awoke and left their red rooms, went down the red hallway and the red stairs and into the red kitchen, where the old woman was already waiting.
"So, what would you boys like for breakfast?" She asked.
"Do you have any Cheerios?" Inquired the first man.
"Of course" The woman walked over to the red pantry, grabbed a box of Cheerios, poured him a bowl, and put the box back into the red pantry.
"So how about you?" She asked the second man.
"I don't suppose you have any Wheaties?"
"Well sure I do." The woman walked over to the red pantry, grabbed a box of Wheaties, poured him a bowl, and put the box back into the red pantry.
"and you?" She asked the third man.
"I guess I'll have Cheerios too."
"Alright." The woman walked over to the red pantry, grabbed the box of Cheerios, poured him a bowl, and put the box back into the red pantry again.
Two out of three men prefer Cheerios over Wheaties.